Also, he stated that the amount of glass eaten has showed an increase over time. According to the anamnesis received, we learned that the patient, who has no feature in his premorbid life, has had the complaint for nearly 10 years he constantly keeps glass pieces in his mouth during the day, chews and swallows them, feels restlessness and irritability whenever he does not have them, and embarks on a quest this behavior of quest gradually increases with this craving. The patient, who had not made a psychiatric application before, has had an increasing craving for eating glass recently and had to make an application for treatment, since he was having difficulty with quitting. This article presents a case of adult-onset pica with radiological findings.Ī 32-year-old, primary school graduate, unemployed male patient applied to our polyclinic with the complaint of having the habit of eating glass for approximately 10 years. 3, 4įinding pica in an elderly age-group is relatively uncommon, and it rarely has an adult onset. In addition to those with brain damage, epilepsy, mental retardation, psychosis, or dementia, lower socioeconomic groups, young children, pregnant women, or breastfeeding mothers with increased nutritional demands are at higher risk. The purpose of this letter is to present a patient with the behavior of eating glass, in whom lesions in the sylvian fissure and corpus callosum were determined as a result of the radiological examination and cranial MRI.Īlthough there are a limited number of epidemiological studies and likely underreporting made by embarrassed patients, pica is observed in all ages, races, genders, and geographic regions. Recently, pica has been associated with obsessive-compulsive (OCD) spectrum disorders.

Etiologies of consuming common and bizarre substances range from mineral deficiencies and helminthic infestations to cultural preferences. To the Editor: Pica is the persistent and compulsive ingestion of nonnutritive substances it includes eating disorders with unusual cravings.

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