[Iron therapy in mental aberrations (pica) in childhood].
Besides of four pica cases (eating of dirt, paper, cotton, oakum, sand, lime, chalk) the authors report on a girl with trichophagia. The treatment of choice in pica consists in a sufficient supply of iron. The authors suggest that the intravenously administered iron acts on some centers of the central nervous system.
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II. Medizinische Universitätsklinik, Psychiatrische Kinderpoliklinik von Tîrgu-Mures-Marosvásárhely, Romania.
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D000747:Anemia, Hypochromic / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007501:Iron / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D010842:Pica / Q000188:drug therapy*
D007501:Iron
Eisentherapie bei psychischen Aberrationen (Pica) im Kindesalter.