Pica disease
This paper aimed to locate and assess chronologically significant definitions and accounts of pica, to provide a fuller clinical description of a condition which, despite its current relevance, has received little detailed historical examination, and to give some consideration to the multiple aetiological theories which have been put forward. Studies also indicate that pica has led to the death of people with developmental disabilities. Extensive research on the history and terminology of eating disorders from the 16th to the 20th century suggests that, historically, pica was regarded as a symptom of other disorders rather than a separate entity. Pica is a dangerous form of self-injurious behavior that occurs in people with developmental disabilities who are institutionalized. Pica in children, and feeding disorder in infancy and childhood, are incorporated with enuresis, encopresis, and feeding, movement and speech disorders in a separate “heterogeneous group of disorders”. OBO ID pica disease An eating disorder that is characterized by an appetite for non-nutritive substances or food ingredients. Medicines may help reduce the abnormal eating behavior if pica is part of a developmental disorder such as intellectual disability. However, in the Draft of ICD–10, only anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are listed under eating disorders. In DSM–III–R, pica, with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and rumination disorder of infancy, is accorded the status of a separate eating disorder. Pica is an eating disorder typically defined as the persistent eating of nonnutritive substances for a period of at least 1 month at an age in which this.