A case of pica
KAREN BRIDGMAN is a holistic practitioner at Australian Biologics, Sydney.
A 40-year-old woman presented to the clinic recently with a very interesting problem. For the past couple of months she had been trying to manage a constant craving to eat chalk and it was concerning her. She also had problems with digestion and felt she wasn’t digesting her food properly, much of it showing up in her stool, recognisable in its nearly original state. The symptoms she presented with included heartburn, wind and bloating on a daily basis with her bowel
