This included 303 two-inch nails, 145 coins, 25 office pins, six razor blades, and 18 sowing needles. Following a surgical procedure, a total of 497 metallic objects weighing 1.84 kilograms were found in his stomach (and what was most remarkable was that his stomach was completely in tact). The initial diagnosis was ‘kwashiorkor’ (protein calorie malnutrition) but following an X-ray, the doctors discovered there were metallic objects in his upper abdomen. C.O.) that turned up at hospital complaining of “persistent vomiting after meals, cough, weakness, inability to walk and swelling of the legs and face”. Iroegbu reported the case of a 22-year old adult Nigerian male (Mr. Klinger and colleagues reported that acuphagia has been documented in autistic children, and that this may be possibly due to sensory disturbances.Īcuphagia and metal eating appears to be rarer in adult populations although a number of case studies from around the world have been published over the last decade. In a 2003 book chapter in the book Child Psychopathology, Dr. Papers and other anecdotal evidence from parents demonstrates children eating metallic objects is well documented, although acuphagia in children appears to be very rare (and is potentially fatal). She was treated with a dietary zinc supplement and within 3 days, her pica disappeared completely. When she was one-and-a-half-years old she began to eat small metallic objects (such as keys, the metal trim on carpets, and bits of aluminium foil). She had a poor appetite generally and was diagnosed with a zinc deficiency. They described the case of a two-year-old girl had a six-month history of pica, that resulted in 'metal-eating'. Silverman published in a 1973 issue of the Archives of Disease in Childhood. One of the earliest papers that I came across was a case study by Dr. After reading these news stories, it got me wondering what academic research had been carried out on people that voluntarily eat metal objects (irrespective of whether the person is mentally ill).
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