Poor 3-year old Natalie Hayhurst of Indiana has a rare condition which causes her to want to eat things that are not edible. We can’t make this up, according to the news report:
In February she nearly died after eating a light bulb that she tore from a bedroom night-light. While her favorite delicacies are rocks and sticks, Natalie has been known to wolf down almost a whole brick, ‘like it was a chocolate chip cookie’.
Her mother Colleen, 31, says every day is a constant battle of wills as she tries to stop her daughter eating something that could kill her.
Have you ever heard of this condition before?!
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Exorcism might work?
It’s called Pica.
Yep! The show Strange Addictions show people eating all kinds of weird things. There was a guy who liked to eat glass. A woman who liked to eat the foam in her sofa.
Yea, it is pica. A lot of women get it when they’re pregnant, too. So strange