A 19-year-old American girl has just decided to consult a therapist to get rid of her addiction to soap, which led her to eat up to 5 bars of soap a week in times of stress.
This fairly rare eating disorder is called Pica disease : it is a disorder that is characterized by the ingestion of non-nutritive substances (chalk, sand, earth, paper and therefore soap). It is sometimes caused by severe mineral deficiencies, causing some women who lack calcium to eat chalk or coal when they are low on iron.
This young American living in Florida took a liking to soap from her early childhood, tasting the flakes of washing powder. “I remember the first time I put my fingers full of detergent in my mouth: it was both sweet and salty. I loved it. And I was immediately hooked,” he explains. she in an interview at DailyMail.
But little by little, her addiction grew and the young woman, refusing to think about the risks to her health, began to lick the bubbles of her bar of soap in the shower, then to nibble small pieces of soap. .going up to devour 5 bars of soap per week, in times of stress. “I like the feeling of inner cleanliness it gives me.”
But after six months on this diet, she finally decided to consult a doctor to try to get rid of this eating disorder.
