A pregnant woman with a constant craving for furniture polish has been diagnosed with a rare eating disorder after her three-times-a-day habit forced her to seek medical advice.
Seven months pregnant Emma Veness, 26, is inexplicably drawn to eating polish despite her own fears she could be harming her baby
After the first time, Emma said she was determined not to do it again but every day her craving comes back with a vengeance, leaving her desperately searching for snacks in the cupboard under the sink.
Since her unusual habit started she has consumed three whole cans and now worries her craving will never go away.
Emma, from Birmingham, was first drawn to the cleaning product a few months into her pregnancy and now says she must eat it two or three times a day to keep her cravings at bay.
Her strange obsession with non-edible items started as a child when she began eating bubbles out of her bath - something she has done ever since.
As she grew up, Emma found herself drawn to the smell of cleaning products and anti-bacterial handwash but it was not until she fell pregnant with her first child, daughter Darcie, now 11 months, that her obsession with polish began.
To begin with, she would sniff the dusters as she went about cleaning the house she shares with her partner, Gavin Wallis, a 27-year-old bricklayer.
But by the time she fell pregnant with the couple's second child, a little girl expected in October, she began eating the polish straight from the can
Emma said: 'I can't explain why I like it, I think it has a lot do with the texture and how it feels in my mouth. I normally spray a bit on my fingers and lick it off or I spray a bit on the duster and suck it.
'For ages Gavin had no idea what I was up to. I would be polishing the TV and I would turn my back to him to have a taste of it. When he found out he was not happy at all.
'My mum goes mad about it and has tried to get me to stop. The funny thing is both her mum and Gavin's grandmother had cravings for coal when they were pregnant.
'It's quite embarrassing; I've tried all the different brands but Asda Smart Price polish is the one that does it for me. The others are all too perfumed.O dikwa serious
1 comment:
This one don pass "PICA"- craving of unusual things during pregnancy.
Wahala dey o. D lady dey sick big time!
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