Pagophagia is the compulsive consumption of
ice.It has been shown to respond to
iron supplementation, leading some investigators to postulate that
pica is the result, not the cause, of
nutritional deficiency (specifically, deficiencies of iron,
zinc,
magnesium, and
phosphorus). Folk wisdom (and some early investigators) maintained that pica reflected an
appetite to compensate for some problem. Ice probably helps relieve some of the symptoms of low iron, including inflammation of the
tongue and
stomach.
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1. The eating of ice
2. A folk remedy of eating a bowl of ice daily to offset iron deficiency
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