Unusual predilection

Englishwoman Kerry Trebilkuk from Cornwall loves to eat. Here are just chooses unusual dishes - soap and a sponge.

During his 21-year-old life, she ate more than 4,000 sponges for washing dishes and more than 100 pieces of soap.





For a long time, Kerry diet consisted of sponges soaked in tea or hot chocolate, or with mustard and barbecue sauce. She never leaves the house without a snack - a small plastic bag with sponge cut into pieces and sauce to it. As she says, the propensity to consume her jaw appeared in 2008, after undergoing intestinal infection, which she received on a journey to Morocco - body girl stopped to load up and quenches exclusively sponges.

In 2009, she went to the doctor. And then she put an unusual diagnosis - a rare disease called Pica, where people eat a lot of non-food items, ranging from metal and sand, and up to the Cretaceous, lamps and furniture ... To date, Kerry took a big step to recovery. The doctors prescribed her vitamins and gradually the amount consumed jaws dropped to 1 per week.

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