Not many people know about or own up to this one, A desire to eat ice – several cups at a time, it’s quite common in people with #irondeficiency. The technical name is Pagophagia, a form of Pica, this being more a general term for the need to eat strange and inappropriate things (like in pregnancy) – ice seems the most common, others are clay, soil, tissues, paper. Treatment by #ironinfusion and the craving goes in days.
