{"id":40370,"date":"2025-11-01T22:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wrexham-toddlers-eating-disorder-means-he-eats-wood\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:12:28","slug":"wrexham-toddlers-eating-disorder-means-he-eats-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wrexham-toddlers-eating-disorder-means-he-eats-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrexham toddler&#8217;s eating disorder means he eats wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">When baby Junior kept eating inedible objects, his mum knew something was wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">But Jess Harry, from Brymbo, Wrexham, had never heard of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/connect.humber.nhs.uk\/resource\/understanding-and-managing-pica\/\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">Pica<\/a> &#8211; an eating disorder that occurs most often in children and means they crave and eat objects or things with no nutritional value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She has been forced to make her home a &#8220;Junior safe zone&#8221; but says keeping the 21-month-old safe is stressful and isolating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He has scoffed &#8220;sand by the handful&#8221;, licked nursery rugs and even ended up with lead in his blood due to old paint layers in a door frame he chewed through.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c205njeljnlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When baby Junior kept eating inedible objects, his mum knew something was wrong. But Jess Harry, from Brymbo, Wrexham, had never heard of Pica &#8211; an eating disorder that occurs most often in children and means they crave and eat objects or things with no nutritional value. She has been forced to make her home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1342,5229,2501,5160,12219,5274,2082],"class_list":["post-40370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-disorder","tag-eating","tag-eats","tag-means","tag-toddlers","tag-wood","tag-wrexham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40372,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40370\/revisions\/40372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}