We all have seen patients eating weird stuff. What was the weirdest thing any of your patients have eaten? I have had patients eat clothes detergent (Tide powder) and of course clay.

Not really weird, but consistent...with each of my last two pregnancies, as soon as the first snow fell, I craved ice chips. I didn't stop chomping (much to my hubby's dismay) until each of the girls were born. Immediately after birthing, the cravings were gone!

I had a pt in the hospital that had swolled a whole thing of razor blades.
Another that made a coctail of light bulbs and juice.

We were on a call where a patient, at a nursing home, was eating his own feces (not fishes), all the training in the world could not have prepared us for this incident, and needless to say we made the "call of the week."

Al............. GROSS! GROSS! GROSS!

we had a pt do that with the feces, but she rolled it to look like babe ruth mini bars and was offering it to the staff. something just did seem right with all the "candy bars" unwrapped sitting on her over the bed table. As a rule I don't eat anything offered to me from pts.

This has turned into a dark, dark subject, well, dark brown that is. So sq, did you call EMS to deal with this? Hmmm

I did that after I tried to make myself anorexic/ bulimic, which I failed at. I didn't eat for a month and if I had something it didn't stay with me very long. At the end of the month I craved raw rib eye steak, raw meat...it was weird because I never could even eat meat that was pink.