Eating ice

[Bio and adopt]

Has anyone else seen eating ice as a compulsion? My 15 YO is eating ice again. He went through this about two years ago and we had his iron levels checked they were fine. (some people eat ice when iron levels are low) I can only contribute it to a compulsion. Of course when you ask him why he is eating so much ice he says because he likes it.

[airial95]

My PANDAS son does this - especially if there's a cooler of ice within reach. He's constantly opening the cooler to get ice to eat. EVERYTIME there is ice within his reach, he'll start eating it. We've stopped putting ice in his drinks because he'll spend all of his time reaching in with his hands in order to get the ice.

 

He's been on vitamins for low iron since he was a kid (it runs in our family), but I never thought of it as a PANDAS thing...

[tired mom]

Has anyone else seen eating ice as a compulsion? My 15 YO is eating ice again. He went through this about two years ago and we had his iron levels checked they were fine. (some people eat ice when iron levels are low) I can only contribute it to a compulsion. Of course when you ask him why he is eating so much ice he says because he likes it.

I agree that it seems to be a compulsion. Mine did it several times a day and would come downstairs at night to just eat ice. This was during an exacebation and when that was over so was the whole ice thing.

[pixiesmommy]

I was going to say iron. I think there are several ways to check for anemia, but I don't know the technical names for them. I would check just to be sure. I always crave tons of ice when I am pregnant (and am very anemic then.)