While her favourite delicacies are rocks and sticks, Natalie has been known to wolf down almost a whole brick, 'like it was a chocolate chip cookie'. Despairing 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. Colleen said: "She doesn't try to eat glass so much since it hurt her, but she will try and eat rocks and sticks she finds in the garden.
"I have had to call this poison helpline so many times that it's on my speedial. You name it Natty's tried to eat it. Once when Natty took a bite out of a house plant at my mothers house and again when she ate a brick. She can eat a brick like a normal person would eat a chocolate chip cookie.
"She knows these things are bad for her, me and my husband David have discussed how harmful it is with her. But the cravings are too much for a three year old to handle. She will actively seek out this stuff even though she knows not to." Natalie has Pica, a condition characterised by an appetite for non-nutritive substances.
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Pika isn't that rare. It's more commonly focused on a single class of non-food objects (ice, chalk, paper, etc) than on random indelibles. It's fairly common among pregnant women. I wonder if this kid has minor brain damage. I forget which part of the brain it was, but I know selective damage to the brains of lab monkeys can cause pika.
Damn phone....inedibles, not indelibles.
I also can't spell tonight...pica.
Do quotation marks mean something else in Britain? Are those supposed to be things that the mother really said... verbatim? Because that's not how people from Indiana speak.
I have to assume that if the paper is willing to change/fabricate quotations, they're also willing to make up the entire story.
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