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PICA

This report is on the disease called Pica, it is a eating disorder , it can ucuarr at any time to anyone , this is a serious disease . It causes the woman to have cravings for such things as playdoe or sand .

Pica is a serious eating disorder that can cuase you to need surgery . It can also cuase you to need dental work , phosphors intoxication cuased by the match heads , or environmental

poising from the led or mercury .

Some of the cravings that you get from this disorder are clay , dirt , cornstarch , laundary starch , baking soda , chalk , buttons ice , paper , dried paint , ciggerette buts , burnt matches , ashes , sand , soap , toothpaste , oyster shells , or ven broken crockery . The woman who get this disease craves 6 out of the 18 things that are craved with this disease . They named this disease after the latin word magpie , magpie is a bird , they named it after the bird because

they have a weird

eating habit . It also craves the substances that the Pica patients do .

The most common time for the disease to acuarr is while a woman is pregnant

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