Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160607185611/@comment-28715560-20160615173319

because not all pica sufferers eat a plateful of cigarettes or hair every day

let's say that you have geophagia, it means that you eat soild, dirt or clay, these things aren't usually poisonous and in small doses do not really affect you that much

pica can be caused by mineral deficiency or hookworms but it can also pe caused by OCD so if the users need to eat stones is about 4-5 bits of gravel per day then i don't really see it as a very threathening condition

sure it's potentially life-threathening but that means that it's life threathening in only some cases