An unusual cause of intestinal obstruction: Plastobezoar

Garg, Pankaj; Sharda, Divya; Kumar, Ashwani; Sharda, Vijay K.

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“…Pica is defined as a persistent eating of non‐nutritive, non‐food substances for a period of at least 1 month, which is inappropriate to the developmental level of the individual and to the culturally supported or socially normative practice (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The nature of ingested non‐food items includes raw starches (amylophagia), earth (geophagia), ice (pagophagia), hair (trichophagia), and faeces (coprophagia) (Steinberg et al, 2002), with one of the rarest substances ingested being plastic (“plastophagia”) (Garg et al, 2013).…”

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A rare case report of teen‐onset pica in a female patient with a clinical high risk for psychosis

Fekih‐Romdhane

Cheour

2021

Early Intervention Psych

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Aim: We aimed to further elucidate the under-researched, underdiagnosed and misunderstood comorbid pica in the context of psychosis.Method: We report a case of teen-onset plastophagia in an antipsychotic-naïve girl at ultra-high risk (UHR) for psychosis.Results: HA is a 17-year-old unmarried girl who had a history of good premorbid functioning, no personal psychiatric history and an uncle with schizophrenia. She was referred to our psychiatry department with the complaint of having the habit of eating plastic for about 2 years. A thorough clinical history revealed that she developed, since more than a year, difficulty in school and interpersonal functioning. After clinical evaluation, a diagnosis of UHR with major depressive disorder, iron deficiency anaemia and pica was made. Conclusion:We draw attention to the possibility of an overlap between the pathogenesis of pica and psychosis, and we highlight the importance of early diagnosis and management of both pica and UHR since they can lead to serious medical and mental consequences.

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