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What are the side effects of eating mud, brick pieces, sand, chalk etc. Why children do so.
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Whenever there is iron deficiency in our body we tend to eat mud, chalk etc and there is digestion problems after eating all the things you mentioned and instead if we give them iron syrup directly than they stop eating unwanted stuff on their own.
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