Eating Disorder, Pica: Differential Diagnoses & Workup

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Further Reading

Keywords

geophagia, eating clay, eating soil, eating dirt, pagophagia, eating ice, plumbophagia, eating lead, amylophagia, eating laundry starch, coprophagia, eating feces, cautopyreiophagia, eating burnt matches, eating burnt match heads, trichophagia, eating hair, lithophagia, eating stones, geomelophagia, eating raw potatoes, acuphagia, eating sharp objects, inappropriate eating, eating of nonnutritive substances, eating nonfood items, eating disorder, pica, GI tract complications, hyperkalemia, toxoplasmosis, toxocariasis, mechanical bowel problems, constipation, intestinal ulcerations, intestinal perforations, intestinal obstructions, mental retardation, autism, lead toxicity, lead encephalopathy, soil-borne parasitic infections, trichuriasis, bezoar formation, zinc deficiency syndromes, iron deficiency syndromes

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Author

Cynthia R Ellis, MD, Director of Developmental Medicine, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Munroe Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Cynthia R Ellis, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Nebraska Medical Association
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Connie J Schnoes, MA, PhD, Psychologist, Director of Training, Supervising Practitioner, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Boys Town
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Medical Editor

Angelo P Giardino, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; Medical Director, Texas Children's Health Plan, Inc
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Caroly Pataki, MD, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychiatry, Division Chair, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Director of Training, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
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