Morbidity pattern among children below 5 years in an urban Sindhi community

Sharma, Vandna; Sharma, Rishabh; Purohit, B. K.

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“…More recent studies report variable prevalence figures. For example, Shellshear et al (1975) reported a prevalence rate of 14% in a sample of 136, 1 to 5-year-old white children and in another study, Sharma, Sharma & Purohit (1978) reported a rate of 47.1% in a sample of 350 Indian children aged between 1 and 5 years. Finally, the Committee on Toxicology (1976) has indicated that approximately 50% of all American children between the ages of 1 and 3 engage in pica.…”

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Pica in Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Persons

McAlpine

Singh

1986

J intellect Disabil Res

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Pica in Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Persons

McAlpine

Singh

1986

J intellect Disabil Res

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Infant feeding patterns in Rewa

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Ak²,

Singh

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Indian J Pediatr

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Soil Ingestion by Humans

Simon¹

1998

Health Physics

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Ingestion of soil by humans has been a documented phenomenon for centuries and still takes place today according to various literature. The literature reviewed here shows that there are two distinct soil ingestion phenomenon: inadvertent and purposeful (geophagia). Certain lifestyles, occupations, and living conditions will likely put different individuals or different groups at risk to these separate, but sometimes related, phenomenon. In particular, reports of geophagia are relatively common for the life stages of adolescence and periods of growth, and during pregnancy and lactation. Geophagia also appears to be relatively common among indigenous peoples on all continents, sometimes taking place to extreme degrees. Because of their high dependence on the land, indigenous peoples are also at highest risk for inadvertent ingestion. Inadvertent intake is more a function of either primitive living conditions or professions that may bring workers into close and continual contact with the soil. It is the purpose of this report to review and summarize literature related to ingestion of soil by humans with emphasis on the relevance of soil ingestion to radiological dose assessment, the etiology of geophagia and its relationship to risk assessment, qualitative observations and quantitative studies of direct soil ingestion by humans with interpretations useful for different lifestyle scenarios, the status of a number of current radiological assessment models in accounting for soil ingestion, and some unresolved issues in modeling the ingestion of soil.

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Morbidity pattern among children below 5 years in an urban Sindhi community

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Pica in Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Persons

Pica in Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Persons

Infant feeding patterns in Rewa

Soil Ingestion by Humans

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