Nadia Waheed, Huma Arshad Cheema, Anjum Saeed, Zafar Fayyaz, Muhammad Nadeem Anjum.
Coprophagia in a Young Child.
Pak Paed J Jan ;45(4):487-9.

Coprophagia is a rare disorder in humans and a kind of pica ingestion. It is considered as an obsessive-compulsive disorder and found more in psychiatric hospitals among adult patients with dementia and diffuse brain disease. We report a pediatric case of coprophagia. The young boy was referred to Pediatric Gastroenterology unit for his feculent emesis. On an extensive and exhaustive workup which turned up normal and later on it was discovered that he was ingesting his stool followed by vomiting of same fecal matter.

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