Do you love to eat ice?
 

I've gone through times when I craved ice cubes and dough like crazy, ever since early adolescence. I love the smell of new carpet, new cars, gasoline, and basements more than the average person.

I used to think that my cravings was just one of the many eccentricities that I have, until I learned that the cravings is a symptom of a mild form of pica...caused by my iron deficiency anemia. Fortunately, when I get anemic I only crave edible stuff, and not non-edible stuff like wood and feces. :eek:

Supposedly, it's somewhat common for women who have IDA (people who have anemia period, but women are more like to be anemic) and pregnant women, to have a mild case of pica. Usually in the form of eating ice cubes. The wikipedia page didn't mention this, but pica sometimes extends to craving certain smells.

There are times that I loooove to eat ice, in fact I make "ice popiscles" which are pretty much ice cubes w/ a wooden stick. It makes it easier for me to eat the ice! lol.

I also love to stand near a car when it's turned on and smell the gasoline fumes coming from the exhuast.

I guess it's because I'm on teh verge of being anemic. I think i'm like 1% away from being anemic.

Hmmm. . . I have to be religious about my iron supplement or I'll be anemic - but I don't like ice.

Ice chips remind me of labour and delivery. Love babies, hate l&d.

i am probably the biggest ice eater i know. i can buy it by the bag and go through it in 3-4 days.

its horrible for the teeth, i know. and i am severely anemic. i'm supposed to take daily iron supplement, but i can never remember to.

it's so weird. the smell of the inside of a freezer, or frozen foods are pavlovian to me. or if i see icicles or snow outside, my mouth waters. and through all these years of ice chewing, i have preferences. ice from White Castle is the win. my old job had an ice machine that dispensed pellet-like cubes (the best, IMO). my office has a mini fridge, and the mini ice tray it comes with is pretty sweet - perfect bite-size, like candy. and... if i'm lucky, i may go to someone's house who owns those old-school metal ice trays with the lever. that's ice payola.

yes, one more thing that makes me a freak. as ive had many ideas to be this obsessive. my coworkers tease me about it all the time. to staff meetings, they bring candy, cookies, etc. and i bring a cup of ice. c'est la vie.

okay I get all fo the cravings mentioned except the smell of gasoline...I guess I'm wondering why exactly that is appealing?

tld, I always used to forget my supplement, but then I got one of those big ol' vitamin cases - one that is divided into am/pm - and I put all my vitamins in there, and take them with my morning coffee and right before I go to bed (you have to be careful what you take with what, especially iron). I feel SO much better now that I am taking my iron on a daily basis - just want to share what worked with me in case it might help you!

My cousin's wife had pica when she was a little girl. She would eat rocks and dirt. By the time she met my cousin in college it had healed, though.

I do not think I have had an ice craving since like 4th or 5th grade. Not anemic at all here.

Different people like different fragrances. I don't know why I like it, but I know that ever since I was little I loved standing next to a car while it was running.


It's just like I know people who use hand sanitizer RELIGIOUSLY because they love to hold their hands up to their nose & inhale (and I mean inhale) the odor of the alcohol.

I LOVE ICE!!!!


I ain't gonna have NO teeth when I'm older. :(

At least you'll still be able to have ice!! lol

When I was younger, like in high school, I heard that Freud said that eating ice was a sign of sexual deprivation...

I've always heard that eating chocolate was a sign of sexual deprivation.

Freud is my homeboy. Brownies and ice for the win.

Sen is my homeboy too, for the obvious.

I love eating crushed ice. Mmm...

www.icechewing.com

I read about it in this article http://www.cracked.com/article_15250...es-on-web.html

So, I was sexually deprived at age 11? That's when the ice eating started, lol.

Yes...yes...the feeling of cold cold ice moving around my mouth, the hard crunch when I bite down, the grittiness of chewed ice I rub my tongue across, and the faint taste of bleach....induces the same sense of physical pleasure as sitting down after playing a long game of soccer, letting out three sneezes in a row, or experiencing sexual arousal.

Something tells me Freud would have a field day with you!
:D

Hahaha! When I first saw this thread, I thought it was about eating disorders!
A few of my fellow advisors when I was at UW Madison were reminiscing about their time in the house, and they said that the ice machine was always empty in the 80's. They said that this was because the women in the house that would never eat, would wander around with cups full of ice, so they would have something to chew on. :(