What items that you can find in school classrooms will these people eat.
what are Paper or pencils?
what percent of adults have pica
What can eating paint chips lead to
What is lead poisoning?
Try to keep these items out of reach when craving happens.
what are nonfood items?
What feeling do pica people get when there hungry
what is craving?
Kids are supposed to color with these, not eat them
What are crayons/chalk?
What percent of kids have pica behavior
What is 5%
Eating nonfood objects can eventually lead to what?
What is Malnutrition
This therapy pairs eating non food items with a mildly unpleasant consequence while rewarding healthy eating
what is mild aversive therapy?
one cause to see if you have pica
what is iron deficiency?
What items do you tend to find in your laundry room do people with pica sometimes eat.
what are clothing or laundry detergent/starch?
What tip of women will get pica for a period of time
what is Pregnant women
From eating all these non foods what can eventually happen to your teeth
What is cracks/injury
This therapy teaches people to focus on other behavior and activities so they avoid thinking about eating non foods.
what is differential reinforcement?
what can a women have for 9 months that could give her pica.
what is pregnancy?
People with pica sometimes snack on earthy materials you could find in your garden
what is Dirt/soil?
In 1929 a patient with pica was found to have this many total non foods items in their stomach
what is 1446 items?
What body part can get injured in the prose's of eating non foods
What is mouth and teeth?
This type of therapy helps people with pica by teaching mechanisms and strategies to change their behavior.
deficiencies in these minerals such as iron a=or zinc may trigger craving for non food items
what are nutritional deficiencies
What is pet food?
The word "pica" comes from the Latin word of this bird know for eating mostly anything.
What two muscle can get damaged for infections.
what is Liver and Kidney?
If pica is caused by this kind of deficiency, correcting it can sometimes make the disorder go away
What is a dietary/nutrient deficiency
what directly causes pica
What is doctors don't know?