A member asked:

My 16 year old keeps eating poop out of the toilet. we don't know why? we have to watch him every time he goes and that is impossible to do.

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Coprophagia: Eating one's feces may represent severe depression, psychosis or other mood disorders such as schizophrenia, or a medical condition known as pica (when one eats wood, dirt, feces or other atypical substances because of a serious depletion of certain elements in his/her body such as iron deficiency). He should see a physician sooner rather than later.

Answered 5/23/2015

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