Posted on 23 March 2012
Tags: british, craves, dental, disorder, kerry trebilcock, news, non-food, nurse, odd, oddities, pica, soap bars, sponge, sponges
LONDON – Kerry Trebilcock, 21, has a rare disorder called Pica, which causes craves for non-food items, and this is what led her to eat 4,000 sponges and over 100 bars of soaps. Kerry’s eating habits changed after a holiday in Morocco in 2008, where she got infected by hookworm, a parasite that lives in [...]
Posted on 29 February 2012
Tags: eating disorder, kerry trebilcock, pica, sponge eating
LONDON, England – A 21-year-old nurse who suffers an eating disorder claims to have eaten 4,000 mwashing-up sponges so far and does not intend to stop. Kerry Trebilcock told yesterday that her eating-tally also includes 100 bars of SOAP. Kerry is from a town in Cornwall, south of England, and says she still hasn’t found a [...]