Why do you eat ice when you have low iron?

Answer:
Chewing ice is a symptom of iron anemia, it's commonly referred to as pica. Along with chewing ice, you get cravings for paper too.

Chewing ice is a symptom, not a cause or interference. There is not a lot of research on pica, but one reports about Black women in the south with pica who ate laundry starch and clay. Your body is telling you need iron. Give it some. The paper and ice eating will stop when your iron levels near normal, which is 13 to 15 for menstruating females.

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i don't

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I think it has something to do with the taste.

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i have only ever heard of it causing..usually children to eat ..dirt and mud..must be because thers iron in it..im not sure but i will search the net for some answers

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