Question

How to treat geophagia?​

Answer 1

here is no specific way to prevent pica. However, careful attention to eating habits and close supervision of children known to put things in their mouths may help catch the disorder before complications can occur.

Answer 2

• Geophagia is the intentional practice of eating earth or soil-like substances such as clay, chalk, or termite mounds.

It can be treated in following ways :

1. Careful attention to eating habits
2. Close supervision of children known to put things in their mouths
3. The person gets rewarded for eating normal foods
4. Medicines may help reduce the abnormal eating behavior if pica is part of a developmental disorder such as intellectual disability.

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