Dealing with Pica Addiction: How to Stop Cravings for Non-Food Items

Your body eats non-edible items as attempts to get vitamins/nutrients from those items. Identify what those are, and hopefully that can solve the craving?

Oh wow thanks for the alternatives I never heard of any of those Apple paper sounds very yummy lol 😋 definitely will try.

This sounds like it could be quite the burden. When i was younger I loved to chew ice but eventually few out of it. I saw a resource about pica food alternatives and it said attempting to replace items with a similar texture. You probably have already seen this info but since i looked it up I will share: - Rice / Apple paper - Nori - Edible sand/mud - licorice wood - dental grade chewing items you cannot swallow

My sister is a huge ice chips eater non like myself 😶‍🌫️

Idk what else to do. I will however give the ice 🧊 diet a try. 🙂

Lol

I will admit I don't know much about it but I've heard therapy works a lot for people 💕

honestly eating ice isn't the worst thing in the world! try just crunching a whole bunch of ice. Is it the flavor you like? Is it the texture? There are probably ways you could emulate flavors/textures with actual food so you're at least eating something your body can digest

Have you had a complete physical? You may be missing certain nutrients in your diet. I'm not saying that's the reason but you have to start somewhere