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April 10, 2015
by Andrea Ruse, LCPC, LAC, CCDP-D, RPT

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4 Year Old Girl Can’t Stop Eating Carpet: Parents at “Wits’ End”

April 10, 2015 09:13 by Andrea Ruse, LCPC, LAC, CCDP-D, RPT  [About the Author]

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Eating her own carpet padding is a typical behavior for one child in England. Meet four-year old Jessica Knight of Cambridgeshire. Little Jessica has been struggling with a psychological condition known as Pica; a condition in which an individual craves and ingests non-nutritional substances, such as mud, chalk, paint, glue, etc. Parents Kelly and Chris Knight were interviewed and reported that they were unaware of their daughter’s unusual habits at until Jessica was around 2 years old and was discovered eating her faux-leather chair. In response to her most recent Pica activity, Kelly expressed shock at the amount of Jessica’s carpet padding that was eaten away. [More]