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Craving to eat ice, dirt or paper
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A 40-year old asked:
I have started craving to eat dirt and paper. Am I going crazy?
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A 22-year old male asked:
What happens if i eat a little bit of paper suddenly?
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A 21-year old male asked:
What happens if you eat toilet paper?
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A 21-year old female asked:
I eat paper. How life threatening is this?
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A 16-year old male asked:
What happens when you eat some piece of paper(a little piece)?some food are wrapped with paper?
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A 47-year old asked:
Is it unhealthy to eat paper if you don't swallow?
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A 38-year old asked:
What could cause a child to eat... What could cause a child to want to eat paper & also pick on a blanket and eat the blanket?
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A 47-year old female asked:
Everytime I wipe my vagina it be like brown dirt on the tissue paper. What could this be?
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A 20-year old female asked:
I eat paper. I'm 20 and 7 months pregnant so i'm worrying about my son and the affect it'll have on him. I've always been severely anaemic & eaten it.
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A female asked:
I need to stop eating paper please help I have fybermyalgia n I take cymbalta (duloxetine) and now I eat paper?
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A 28-year old asked:
I have an eating disorder, pica, and crave/eat paper and cannot stop! what can I do i've tried everything?
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A 42-year old male asked:
Is using ice to reduce hems better or just as good as putting vasoconstrictor creams on them? What about warm water on toilet paper held against them?
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A 46-year old female asked:
2 weeks ago healthy 46 y/o f hit forehead on stall door, fell hit rt side forehead on paper holder. Hematoma on center forehead, gone w/ ice in 2 dys. S?
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A 56-year old male asked:
Red blood on toilet paper when wiping during the period 2 months. what care should i follow up for 56 yrs old male, chinese, healthy.eat lot of fruit.
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A member asked:
Im doing this research paper on acne and i want to know the causes of acne like hormonal wise and chemicals that we put on our face and eat and stress?
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A 46-year old female asked:
I have a dark vaginal discharge that resembles dirt particles but its (I guess) when I wipe and passing these weird clots. Not your typical clots but looks like all of the particles from the tissue paper is in one big clump. No bleeding?
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A 26-year old female asked:
I am 26 and recently had rectal bleeding in stool and on paper and have now noticed this only occurs with corn. Should I go to a gi or not eat corn?
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A 35-year old female asked:
What should I eat after colon resection surgery? Discharge paper said bland solid food with low fiber. What does it mean? How much? How often?
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A 38-year old female asked:
Poop looked dk. brown/black in toilet but normal brown on toilet paper. Not tarry, wiped easily. No cramps or pain, no Pepto or iron. I eat salad and take greens powder daily. Should I wait to see if it normalizes?
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A 29-year old asked:
I have a craving to eat ice, dirt. So what does this mean?
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A 19-year old male asked:
I burnt a very tiny part on my hand from hot solder. But I applied ice on it (inside 2-3 tissue papers). Would that cause any problems?
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A 26-year old female asked:
My ER papers say to ice my 8yr olds fractured ankle. The splint and wrap put on in ER are very thick and hard, so do I remove it to put ice on it ?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Do you can fill a paper that I need for work?
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A 35-year old female asked:
What happens if a baby accidentally ate paper?
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A 52-year old male asked:
What is the cause of a habit of eating toilet roll paper?
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A 43-year old asked:
Is there more fibre in the paper box or a serving of corn flakes?
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A 45-year old asked:
I am doing a paper on how nutrition and the demonization of food.?
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A member asked:
What is your monthly salary? A research paper would you min answering some questions?
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A 32-year old asked:
How can I organize my important documents including health records without using paper?
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A 16-year old male asked:
Why do paper cuts hurt so much, and sometimes more than deeper cuts caused by sharp objects?
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