Rare Condition Drives Girl to Eat Light Bulb
Image via Wikipedia (TERRA HAUTE, Ind.) -- Natalie Hayhurst looks like your average adorable 3-year-old. She plays with makeup, loves Justin Bieber , and loves playing with her big brother on their farm outside Terre Haute , Ind. But when it comes to food , she's anything but average. Most kids her age are a little picky. Natalie likes everything -- literally. "Well, I first noticed it was a problem...[when] she had actually eaten my vinyl blinds that hang out to cover your sliding door . She took two bites out of them," said Natalie's mother, Colleen Hayhurst. Natalie suffers from a rare condition called Pica that creates a compulsion to eat things that aren't food. "She prefers the wood, paper products, cardboard, sticks," said Colleen. "She'll eat rocks, dirt; she's had a bite out of a Diet Coke can; she's eaten the little magnet out of the shower curtain , plastic bottles, toys." "You can't take your eye off o...