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Photo: Getty '/> Emma Thompson, the 23-year-old inhabitant of the British city of Newcastle considers that kitchen sponges are more tasty than usual food and in a day can progloit about 20 pieces, reports Metro.se with reference to The Mirror.
"To me like taste and a detergent smell on a sponge. Tastes like apple. Whoever that spoke but if I see packing of kitchen sponges in shop, I am simply obliged to buy one. I am definitely dependent. I tried to cease to do it, but it is impossible to me", - she declared in The Mirror interview.
In the childhood the girl ate with p different types of mushrooms while once did not try a kitchen sponge. The rare disease known as "an appetite perversion" which is expressed in aspiration can be the cause of such strange dependence there are not feedstuffs (like chalk, lime, ashes and other) and is often combined with the perverted relation of the patient to smells (aspiration to smell kerosene, gasoline, acetone, etc.) . According to data of the medical reference book, this deviation is observed at deficiency in an organism of iron and other microcells and substances at defectively raised children, at iron deficiency anemia, especially at hloroze at girls, at pregnancy, malignant new growths, gastritises and enterokolitakh with violation of absorbability of feedstuffs in a gastrointestinal path, can be also manifestation of a tumor of a brain and mental diseases.
Emma admits that did not address yet to specialists in an occasion of the dependence. Nevertheless, she recognizes that it prevents it to live fully.
"When people learn p about my strangeness, they are terrified and set a heap of questions. And it is unpleasant to me", - the girl adds.
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