Pica

Pica: A craving for something not normally regarded as nutritive. For example, dirt. Pica is a classic clue to iron deficiency in children. It also occurs in zinc deficiency.
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Pica in humans has many different subgroups, defined by the substance that is ingested. Some of the most commonly described types of pica are eating earth, soil or clay (geophagia), ice (pagophagia) and starch (amylophagia).
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Pica can occur during pregnancy. In some cases, specific nutritional deficiencies, such as iron deficiency anemia and zinc deficiency, may trigger the unusual cravings. Pica may also occur in adults who crave a certain texture in their mouth.
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Pica. One odd symptom, and in some cases a cause of iron deficiency, is pica. This is the habit of eating unusual substances, such as ice (called pagophagia), clay, cardboard, foods that crunch, or raw starch.
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PICA (craves dirt)
SYMPTOMS"The child keeps eating dirt.
CAUSES"Children eat dirt because they crave minerals which they are not obtaining enough of in the foods served them. Sometimes they eat paint chips from the walls.
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Pica - the inappropriate eating of non-food material such as soil or chalk - is a sign of iron deficiency in children.
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in psychology, disorders in eating patterns that comprise four categories: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, rumination disorder, and pica. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by self-starvation to avoid obesity.
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Doctors use the term "pica" to describe craving and chewing substances that have no nutritional value - such as ice, clay, cornstarch and paper.
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the Law of Potentization, homoeopathic medicines were specifically recommended for the treatment of leg cramps and other pregnancy-induced discomforts, such as anaemia, herpes, nausea and hyperemesis, (vomiting) ptyalism (excessive saliva), and pica ...
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[5] Complications of phlebotomy include progressive and sometimes extreme thrombocytosis and symptomatology related to chronic iron deficiency, including pica, angular stomatitis and glossitis, dysphagia that is due to esophageal webs (very rare), ...
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irritability
lack of energy or tiring easily (fatigue)
increased heart rate (tachycardia)
sore or swollen tongue
enlarged spleen
a desire to eat peculiar substances such as dirt or ice (also called pica) ...
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Technique: Shredded Teflon felt is placed to separate and reduce pressure on the medulla oblongata from the artery (most often the posterior inferior cerebral artery [PICA]). Source: The Lancet - 8/1998; 352:446-449.
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Sleeping habits, such as the daily average amount of sleep, and at what age naps were no longer needed
Whether the child is right- or left-handed
Food preferences, including any unusual cravings for substances that are not food (pica) ...
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