Gowda Mahesh, Patel Bhavin M, Preeti S, Chandrasekar M
Department of Psychiatry, Spandana Nursing Home, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Ind Psychiatry J. 2014 Jan;23(1):65-7. doi: 10.4103/0972-6748.144972.
Xylophagia is a condition involving the consumption of paper and form of eating disorder known as pica. Pica is an unusual craving for ingestion of either edible or inedible substances. Inhalants are volatile substances, which produce chemical vapors that can be inhaled to induce a psycho-active or mind altering effect. Although, pica is not linked to solvent abuse, here we report an adolescent case of paper-eating with solvent dependence.
食纸癖是一种涉及食用纸张的状况,属于异食癖这种饮食失调形式。异食癖是一种对摄入可食用或不可食用物质的异常渴望。吸入剂是挥发性物质,会产生可吸入以诱发精神活性或改变意识效果的化学蒸汽。虽然异食癖与溶剂滥用没有关联,但在此我们报告一例患有溶剂依赖的青少年食纸病例。