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The Harmful Effects of Eating Stones During Pregnancy: What Every Mom Should Know
Jun 2, 2025
Eating stones while pregnant—also known as pica—can pose serious health risks to both mother and baby. Learn about the causes, dangers, and how to seek help.
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why do you think pregnant women crave
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for stones or should i call them rocks
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or soil
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why
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welcome back to our channel thank you so
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that you don't miss out on the videos
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that i post so on today's episode we are
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talking about cravings and cravings is
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just a very strong urge to eat something
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a very strong urge to eat something so
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from craving chocolate to craving stones
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like i already said all these things are
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an indication that your body is lacking
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something
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and so back to our question why do you
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think pregnant women crave for these
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stones or rocks or soy
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okay usually experts say that these
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stones contain minerals obviously rocks
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stones contain minerals like calcium
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which are very important for strong
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bones from strong teeth and therefore
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when your body is craving these stones
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it's simply an indication that your body
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is deficient of these minerals
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and i'm sure you're going to ask
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yourself now how do i stop
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okay the first thing you need to do is
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to seek professional help
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okay seeking professional health first
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of all will help you identify
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presence of deficiency are you deficient
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is this why you're eating these stones
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and therefore these through largest
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clinical examinations they're able to
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identify this deficiency and of course
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you get prescribed supplements that can
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help you manage that but suppose it's
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not deficiencies
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suppose it's just an eating disorder
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that is not linked to any deficiencies
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then you need a therapies
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if you want to uh to to see how bad it
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can get
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do you wash that stone
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usually you just pick and go and to make
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even matters worse these stones are
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making their way into supermarkets into
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our shops we buy them and so that the
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fact that these stones are making their
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way to supermarkets it's making it easy
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for so many women to use it and i'm
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thinking about diseases i'm thinking
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about infections that are linked to
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eating soil and and the stones
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okay and at the same time you're
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pregnant so you're not only risking
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yourself you're also risking the life of
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your unborn child okay the health of
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your born child
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we are talking about infections i know
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you're talking about infections we're
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talking about things like vomiting
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diarrhea and you're pregnant this is a
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risk factor this is very risky for your
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child especially
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so
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what is important here is you seek
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professional help so that you
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so that deficiencies can be
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identified and supplements can be given
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but even before we get into supplements
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healthy diets choosing balanced diets
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choosing variety of foods from all these
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food groups can help prevent
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deficiencies and therefore you won't
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need to be eating stones to cover for
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the vitamins or the minerals that you
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you feel like you're missing
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okay this uh craving goes way way back
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and some women do even do it without
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considering the bad effects that come
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with it so this video is an
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enlightenment we need to know the reason
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why we do certain things and if this
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thing is bad for our health we need to
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stop and therefore one way of stopping
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us to seek professional health to get
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supplements and also just embracing a
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healthy lifestyle healthy food choices
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will help you a big deal so it is as
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short as that i hope you have learned
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something from this video and if you
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have
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other opinions of how to stop this kind
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of cravings put your comments down in
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the comment section below and let me
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know
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what you think about this is it safe is
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it not safe for me i say it is not safe
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it is not safe at all okay and if you
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can get these veneers from the foods
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that you eat then you're going to be
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much much healthier than getting these
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uh
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minerals from eating soil or stone
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or rocks thank you so much for joining
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me today until next time bye
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