Pica Disorder

If you are eating chalk it is a definite sign that you have a condition called PICA. Your body is having a problem absorbing minerals. ( this is why you are "craving" such an odd substance). Good news though, this is easily treated and after your body is back to "normal" it will then be easy and most importantly SAFER for you to conceive. Go see a nutritionist or your family doctor . Easily fixed with some supplements.

If your child eats paper, he/she may have pica. Pica is an eating disorder characterized by continual ingestion of nonnutritive substances such as plaster, paint, paper, dirt, string, wood, crayons, and clothes, etc.

Yes, some people do eat chalk, especially if they have calcium deficiencies. If you are craving chalk, you might have pica disorder, a calcium deficiency, or other issues, so please see a doctor immediately.

It can be because some sidewalk chalk contains lead.

Pica is a condition where the individual eats strange substances that offer no nutritional value. Roughly, 0-32 percent of children between the ages of one and six (as well as some adults) have this condition, according to the National Library of Medicine.

Pica is eating disorder where people each non-eating substance like dirt, clay, pencil, rubber, ice, paint etc. Mostly small Children and female are affected with this disorder. Iron Deficiency Anemia, pregnancy and nutritional deficiency are the main causes of Pica. Some time pica cases are dangerous but the treatment of this Problem may possibly at Trishla Foundation.

nappy rash. or heat rash. ask your GP

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If it is non-toxic, I don't think so. Small children tend to eat all sorts of things and there's probly a ton of healthy adults out there that have eaten much worse than non-toxic chalk. If you're worried, though, contact your local poison control center.

Yes you can but if you eat too much, you might get sick cause paper has alot germs.I used too eat paper all of the time when I was a little kid and never got sick but if you tell anyone that you eat paper at an older age like 9 and up then people with start to think your weird.

Rice paper is edible, however it is not advisable to eat regular paper.

Well, I'm not too sure why you'd be feeding your baby toilet paper, but no toilet paper can not kill your baby, it may just make it sick. Cellulose or plant fiber is the main ingredient of toilet paper. It cannot be digested by humans but in small quantities should pass with no problems. It is the pulp that is found in fibrous plants. Any vomiting, constipation, abdominal distention, or abdominal pain warrants a trip to the ER. Just want to add that your baby will have at least 3 - 4 years of putting things into their mouths or up their nose! LOL The worst time is teething time and babies love to feel of certain things on their sore gums. Toilet paper (a small bit) should be fine and pass through the digestive system as the above poster stated. Get baby proof bars for the lower cupboard doors where you keep your cleaners and the bathroom is the worst place that you have to keep your baby out of. If you phone your poison control they will give you a pamphlet of what to do if your baby should ingest anything poisonous until the ambulance gets there. Watch your baby out in the backyard during playtime. My girlfriend years ago had her son out in the backyard and he ate half a slug! Because people here in B.C. put slug bait out I was worried this slug could have crawled through some of it so I got her to give her son a little milk (to coat his stomach and contain the contents for a short time) and to put the the other half of the slug in a jar and phoned I phoned the ambulance. Thankfully everything was just fine.

It depends what you consider to be "blood". Whole blood, collected directly from a volunteer blood donor, is rarely used in modern transfusion medicine. Rather, whole blood is separated into blood components, predominantly red cells, platelets and plasma. Each component may then be transfused to a patient for specific needs.

AB negative red cells or whole blood may be only transfused to AB recipients (Rh positive or negative). AB, Rh negative platelets mat be given to any blood type recipient. AB plasma (Rh is of no importance for plasma), considered the "universal" plasma, may be given to any blood type recipient and is always in extreme shortage.

Kids will eat anything, just to see if they can.

If an adult is going around eating slate pencils, I would recommend seeing a doctor. It might be some sort of nervous condition, or indicate a mineral deficiency.

Eating toilet paper in small amounts is okay.

If you eat a lot of it though, it can cause internal blockage. Then, you have to undergo emergency surgery. If the surgery fails, it is fatal.

It is just water, so consuming ice is fine. However, the process will cause cold damage to your teeth and mouth tissues, so it is not recommended that you eat a lot at once; two or three small cubes is probably about it.

But a desire to eat ice is often a symptom of iron deficiency. I don't know why and it really isn't logical, but I have known 4 people who would eat all the ice after drinking a glass of tea or soda. All of them stopped eating ice after having an iron deficiency diagnosed and treated.

Not exactly... But depends on what type or what it may contain, that will be harmful. Hope this helps.

i head its for bad for health ...

You get sick. ( vomit,parasites in intestants)

A general clinical pediatrician will spend most of his/her office hours examining children with upper respiratory illnesses, lower respiratory illnesses, and those complications that could arise from either ailment (ear infections, sore throat, pneumonia, asthma, etc.). Also, a pediatrician will spend an inordinate amount of clinical time assessing children of all ages (birth through 18 years old) on their overall health, development, and well-being.

Coprophagia, the consumption of feces, can be dangerous for humans. Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, pneumonia, and influenza vaccinations are generally recommended for those who engage in this practice. Even consuming one's own feces potentially involves risk, as the bowel bacteria and eggs of parasitic worms are not safe to ingest.

Coprophagia is most often the result of coprophilia, the attraction to the smell, taste, texture or sights and sounds of the act of defecation as a means of sexual arousal and gratification. A common slang term for this is "scat sex." It has also been observed in patients with dementia, severe mental handicaps, schizophrenia or depression.

as you are aware, under our fingernails are thin, sensitive membranes called cuticles, and nails protect these. also, back in prehistoric times, humans had to survive in the wild, and the nails protected their hands and feet as they were running through the forests.

[The above answer is ridiculous. Cuticles are a portion of the structure of the nails, the "sensitive membrane" parts of toe nails are simply the vascular parts of the structures that grow and nourish the nail. To suggest that nails exist to protect the sensitive membranes gets cause and effect backward. The above answer also conflates toe nails and fingernails, as toe nails do little to protect the hands. Finally, to suggest that toe nails protect the feet as prehistoric humans were running through the forests, the answerer seems to be unaware of the simple fact that toe nails are on the top of the toes, and even prehistoric humans ran on the lower surface of the toes. You can run in forests just fine without toe nails.]

We have toe nails to as our evolved version of claws, as our biological ancestors were climbing creatures.

It is just as addictive as drugs. I have been eating Argo Starches for 26years... I find it impossible to stop. If you start eating Argo Starches you will become a starch addict.