Do you know what is Pichia? We often make fun of ourselves and say, "I'm so poor that I'm going to eat earth again" this month, describing life as being in short supply. But Yulin ah, there is a woman who has eaten the soil for 30 years. This soil is worthy of the name of loess.
Cui, who lives in Yulin, is the hero of our story. She is in her 40s. She eats more than 30 jin of loess every year, and she has eaten it for 37 years.
Cui Li: 'I began to eat earth when I was three years old. Up to now, I have been eating earth. My parents didn't say anything, and our sisters didn't respond to a dozen. Let her eat if she wants to eat. When she was 14, she couldn't eat in Shenmu city. There was no loess. My parents often brought me loess. '
Every noon when washing dishes, Cui Li would take out a piece of loess the size of a walnut and eat it. Then she began to work. In order to cure her problem of eating loess, she had been to several hospitals, but it didn't help. She decided to give up eating loess, but later she failed. Now she doesn't care about it. Every day when she wants to eat it, she breaks it off.
Cui Li: 'I don't care about that kind of thing. Let me tell you what I want to say. Maybe it's my lifelong hobby. I can't help it. I can't control my medicine. I can only take it all the time. It doesn't hinder anything. '
Cui Li's husband: 'I've been eating dirt since I got married. I used to eat it on my back, but later I knew it couldn't be stopped. I used to say that she ate less and didn't dare to eat too much. If she ate too much, there must be something wrong with her stomach. At first, she couldn't accept it. Now it's more than 20 years since her husband and wife, that's it. '
Guo Xinjian, a doctor at the Yulin Hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, told reporters that Cui Li's eating soil was a kind of pica, mainly due to the lack of trace elements such as zinc or iron in her body.
Guo Xinjian, deputy chief physician of eight departments in Yulin Hospital of traditional Chinese medicine: "it is recommended to supplement more foods with rich iron or zinc at ordinary times. At the same time, this phenomenon may also be one of the symptoms of iron deficiency anemia. We should further check the blood routine to exclude the possibility of anemia. '