Hooked On Bubblewrap

An eight-year-old girl eats bubble wrap, play dough, and sand.

16:56 21 July 2015

8-year-old Jessica Walker, who suffers from PICA, a compulsive desire to eat non-nutritious food stuff, prefer bubble wrap over chicken nuggets.

 

Her mother, 37-year-old Lindsay Jackson, said that she first noticed her daughter’s strange behaviour when she was just a baby. Jessica, she said, would crawl across the floor and eat dog biscuits right out of the bowl. She added that Jessica also eat play doh and sand on her nursery school’s sand pit.

 

Lindsay Jackson, a reflexologist, said: "It's the strangest thing.

 

"Since birth she has eaten things like dog biscuits, mud and sand.

 

"Whenever I left her at her aunty's house she would eat her candles.

 

Lindsay revealed that she particularly got worried when Jessica started eating plants and mud in the garden.

 

"But if I put a plate of chicken nuggets in front of her she picks the breaded bits off and pushes them away."

 

Lindsay said: "Whenever I turned around she would put something else in her mouth.

 

"I was worried about not watching her.

"I put her in child care when she was two and on the first day they rang to say she was in hospital.

 

"She had eaten the sand pit. Then I knew something was really wrong.

 

"I got regular phone calls saying Jessica had taken pictures off the wall and eaten the blue tack off the back."