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Hypokalemic myopathy “A Possible complication of clay eating

Moagi, Mantoa Elizabeth (University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus), 2010)

1 BACKGROUND (geophagia/pica) Pica is a tendency to ingest nonnutritive substances eg. chalk, paper, wood, coal etc. The American Psychiatric Association in its diagnostic and statistical Manual defines Pica as persistent ...