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My daughter is 11 years old. She has habit of eating paper, pencil lid, and ice cube. What could be the problem with her?
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Pica is a psychological disorder characterized by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive, such as ice (pagophagia); hair (trichophagia); paper (xylophagia); drywall or paint; metal (metallophagia); stones (lithophagia) or soil (geophagia); glass (hyalophagia); or feces (coprophagia); and chalk. Treatment is psychotherapy.
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