'I'm addicted to eating soap': The 19-year-old girl with a dangerous compulsion doctors say could kill her

ဆပ္ၿပာကုိမွစားခ်င္သူ...

ကြ်န္မရဲ ့ၿဖစ္ပံု....ၿဖစ္ပံုဆန္းသေနာ္...တစ္ပါတ္လွ်င္ဆပ္ၿပာတံုးငါးတံုးကုန္ေအာင္စားမိေနတာပါပဲ...

My bizarre compulsion: Tempestt Henderson, 19, says she is addicted to eating soap - and can go through five bars a week

သူမရဲ ့စဲြလန္းမွဳကေတာ ့ အသက္အႏ ၱရယ္ၿဖစ္နုိင္ေလာက္သည္အထိၿဖစ္ေစမည္ ့အရာပါလို ့ဆရာ၀န္မ်ား

ကဆုိပါတယ္...

သုိ ့ေသာ္လည္း အသက္ ၁၉ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ရွိမိန္းကေလးကေတာ ့သူမအေနႏွင္ ့ဆပ္ၿပာကုိသာအာသာငမ္းငမ္း

တားမနုိင္ဆီးမရ ၿဖတ္မရေအာင္စားခ်င္ေနခဲ ့မိတာပါလို ့အခုိင္အမာေၿပာဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ၿဖစ္ေတာင္ ့ၿဖစ္ခဲ ေဆးပညာဆုိင္ရာအေၿခအေနတစ္မ်ဴိးက ဖေလာ္ရီဒါအရပ္မွတမ္းပက္စ္ဟန္ဒါဆင္အမည္

ရွိ မိန္းကေလးအား ရက္သတၱပါတ္တစ္ပါတ္လွ်င္ ဆပ္ၿပာခဲ ငါးခဲႏွင္ ့ဆပ္ၿပာမွဳန္ ့မ်ားစားသံုးေစသည္အထိ

ၿဖစ္ေစခဲ့ပါတယ္....

ခ်ဴိပါတယ္သႀကားေလးလုိ....စားလုိက္ယင္တစ္ကုိယ္လံုးခ်ဴိကာေနေကာင္းသြားပါတယ္...

'It tasted so sweet, and salty': Tempestt claims that the first time she ate washing powder, it just felt right

" ကြ်န္မဘ၀မွာ ပထမဦးဆံုးအႀကိမ္ အ၀တ္ေလွ်ာ္ဆပ္ၿပာမွဳန္ ့ေတြကုိလက္နဲ ့ေကာ္ၿပီးနွဳိက္ခဲ ့တာကုိၿပန္သ
တိရမိပါတယ္...
ဆပ္ၿပာမွဳန္ ့ေတြကုိလွ်ာေပၚတင္လိုက္တာ အရသာကုိ ငန္ၿမၿမနဲ ့ခ်ဴိဆိမ္ ့သြားတာပါပဲ...အဲဒီကတည္းကတစ္
ခါတည္းစဲြသြားေတာ ့တာပါပဲ..." လို ့သူမကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္....
သူနာၿပဳသင္တန္းေက်ာင္းသူက သူမအေနႏွင္ ့ဆပ္ၿပာမ်ားစားသံုးေနတာဟာ အႏ ၱရယ္ရွိတယ္ဆုိတာကုိသိ
ရွိေပမယ္ ့နံနက္မုိးလင္းလို ့မ်က္ေစ ့ႏွစ္လံုးပြင္ ့တာႏွင္ ့ထုိဆပ္ၿပာမွဳန္ ့ပံုးမွာေရးထားသည္ ့အႏ ၱရယ္ေပးစာ
သားမ်ားကုိ လစ္လ်ဴရွဳကာ ဆပ္ၿပာမွဳန္ ့မ်ားကုိလ်က္ကာစားသံုးမိေနခဲ ့တာပဲၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာေတာ ့သူမဟာေရခ်ဴိးယင္းဆပ္ၿပာပူေပါင္းေလးေတြကုိ တုိ ့ထိကာလွ်ာနဲ ့လ်က္စားသည္အထိ
ၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ၿပီး ထုိမွတစ္ဆင္ ့တစ္ပါတ္လွ်င္ဆပ္ၿပာငါးဆံုးကုန္သည္အထိစားရသည္အထိ အက်င္ ့ၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ပါေတာ ့
တယ္....
" ေရခ်ဴိးခန္းထဲမွာဆုိယင္ ကြ်န္မဟာဆပ္ၿပာတံုးနဲ ့ပူေပါင္းေလးေတြၿဖစ္ေအာင္လုပ္ၿပီး အဲဒီဆပ္ၿပာပူေပါင္း
ေလးေတြကုိ လွ်ာနဲ ့တုိ ့ၿပီးလ်က္ပါတယ္....ဆပ္ၿပာေတြေရေပ်ာ္ကာကုန္သြားယင္ေတာ ့ပါးစပ္ထဲကုိ ဆပ္ၿပာ
အနည္းငယ္ထည္ ့ၿပီး စုပ္မ်ဴိလိုက္ရတာကုိက ေလာကနိဗၺာန္ပါပဲ....
ဆပ္ၿပာေတြစားလိုက္ရလို ့ရွင္းသန္ ့သြားတယ္လို ့ခံစားရမွဳကုိပဲကြ်န္မႏွစ္သက္ေနမိပါတယ္...ဆပ္ၿပာကုိစား
လိုက္ရတာကုိ ဆပ္ၿပာနဲ ့ေဆးလိုက္ရတာထက္ ပိုၿပီးသန္ ့ရွင္းလတ္ဆပ္သြားတယ္လို ့ခံစားမိပါတယ္..." လို ့
သူမက ေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

  ခံတြင္းေတြ ့မိတာမွ တားလို ့ကိုမရေတာ ့ပါဘူး....

ဆရာ၀န္ေတြကေတ ့PICA ေရာဂါတဲ ့ဗ်ာ...

When you can't stop: Doctors have diagnosed Tempestt with a rare disorder called PICA, characterised by an appetite for substances that are non-nutritive

နုိ ့မွဳန္ ့မႀကဳိက္ ဆပ္ၿပာမွဳန္ ့ႀကဳိက္သည္ ....

 ဤကဲ ့သုိ ့ဆပ္ၿပာတံုးမ်ား၊ ဆပ္ၿပာမွဳန္ ့မ်ားစားသံုးေနခဲ ့ၿပီးေၿခာက္လေလာက္အႀကာမွာေတာ ့စိတ္ညစ္လာ
ေနခဲ ့ရတဲ ့သူမဟာရဲေဆးတင္ၿပီး ဆရာ၀န္မ်ားထံသြားေရာက္ကာအႀကံဥာဏ္ေတာင္းခံခဲ ့ဖုိ ့ဆံုးၿဖတ္ခဲ ့ပါ
ေတာ ့တယ္...
သူမကုိ ဆရာ၀န္မ်ားက PICA ဟုေခၚသည္ ့ၿဖစ္ေတာင္ ့ၿဖစ္ခဲ၊ ရွားပါးသည္ ့အဟာရဓါတ္မၿဖစ္သည္ ့အရာ
မ်ားကုိခံတြင္းေတြ ့ကာတပ္မက္စြဲလန္းတတ္သည္ ့ခႏၶာေဗဒေဖာက္ၿပန္မွဳအၿဖစ္ေရာဂါသတ္မွတ္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ထုိေရာဂါလကၡဏာရွိသူမ်ားဟာ သံသတၱဳမ်ား၊ ေငြအေႀကြေစ ့မ်ား၊ ေၿမၿဖဴခဲမ်ား၊ ဓါတ္ခဲမ်ားနွင္ ့သြားတုိက္တံ
မ်ား အစရွိသည္မ်ားကုိ စားတတ္ႀကပါတယ္...
ထုိသုိ ့ၿဖစ္ရၿခင္းမွာ ခႏၶာကုိယ္အတြင္းဓါတ္သတၱဳတစ္မ်ဴိးခြ်တ္ယြင္း၊ ခ်ဴိ ့တဲ ့မွဳေႀကာင္ ့ဟုဆုိႀကၿပီး ကိုယ္၀န္
ေဆာင္မိခင္မ်ား သံဓါတ္ခ်ဴိ ့တတ္ပါက ေက်ာက္မီးေသြးမ်ားစားခ်င္တတ္သည္ ့" ခ်င္ၿခင္း " မ်ဴိးၿဖစ္တတ္ႀက
သည္မွာ ဤအေႀကာင္းေႀကာင္ ့ဟုဆုိပါတယ္...
သုိ ့ေသာ္လည္း မိန္းကေလး တင္းပက္စ္ ရဲ ့ခံတြင္းေတြ ့မွဳကေတာ ့စိတ္ဖိစီးမွဳေႀကာင္ ့ၿဖစ္ရတာပါလုိ ့ဆရာ
၀န္မ်ားကယံုႀကည္ႀကပါတယ္...
" ကြ်န္မရဲ ့ခ်စ္သူ ေဂ်ဆင္နဲ ့ကြဲကြာခဲ ့ႀကၿပီးသူတကၠသုိလ္တက္ဖုိ ့ထြက္ခြာသြားခဲ ့ေတာ ့စိတ္ဖိစီးမွဳေတြ၊ 
စိတ္ခံစားမွဳေတြေတာ္ေတာ္ၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ရပါတယ္..." လုိ ့သူမက၀န္ခံေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

 " သူက ကင္ဆပ္ၿပည္နယ္က ေကာလိပ္ကုိ စီးပြားေရးဆုိင္ရာဘာသာနဲ ့သြားေရာက္ေလ ့လာသင္ႀကားရ
ေတာ ့မယ္လို ့ကြ်န္မကုိေၿပာခဲ ့ပါတယ္...ကြ်န္မတို ့ႏွစ္ေယာက္ အေ၀းကုိေရာက္ေနေပမယ္ ့ဆက္
လက္ၿပီးခ်စ္ေနႀကကာအဆက္အသြယ္လုပ္ေနႀကဖုိ ့ကြ်န္မက ေတာင္းပန္ေၿပာဆုိခဲ ့ေပမယ္ ့အရာရာအား
ဟာၿပီးဆံုးသြားခဲ ့ပါၿပီလို ့သူကေၿပာခဲ ့ပါတယ္...ကြ်န္မဟာ အလြန္ကုိေႀကကဲြေသာကေရာက္ခဲ ့ရပါတယ္..."
လို ့သူမကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

 အစားအေသာက္မူမမွန္ေတာ ့ဒီအက်င္ ့ကုိသာမေဖ်ာက္နုိင္ယင္ ေသဖြယ္ရာသာရွိေတာ့တယ္...

NOT a balanced meal: Doctors say if Tempestt doesn't kick her habit - which they blame on PICA, caused by stress - it could kill her

သူမကုိယ္တုိင္ မိသားစုရွိရာ ဖေလာ္ရီဒါကေန မုိင္ေပါင္းရာႏွင္ ့ခ်ီၿပီးေ၀းကြာတဲ ့ေနရာကေကာလိပ္ကုိတက္
ေရာက္ဖုိ ့ထြက္ခြာလာခဲ ့ရေတာ ့အေၿခအေနေတြဟာ ပုိလို ့ပင္ဆုိးလာခဲ ့ပါေတာ ့တယ္...
" ေကာလိပ္ေက်ာင္းက အိမ္ကေန ငါးနာရီေလာက္ႀကာေအာင္သြားရတာမုိ ့စိတ္ဓါတ္လည္းပုိၿပီးက်ခဲ ့ရပါ
တယ္...ကြ်န္မဟာ ကုိယ္တုိက္ဆပ္ၿပာနဲ ့အ၀တ္ေလွ်ာ္ဆပ္ၿပာမွဳန္ ့ေတြကုိသာဖိၿပီးစားခဲ ့တာမုိ ့ကြ်န္မရဲ ့အ
ေၿခအေနေတြပုိၿပီးဆုိးရြားလာခဲ ့ရပါတယ္..." လုိ ့သူမကရွင္းၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...


အခုေတာ ့ဆရာ၀န္ေတြက သူမကုိစိတ္ညစ္လာတဲ ့အခါထုိအေႀကာင္းေတြမေတြးမိေစဖုိ ့လမ္းထြက္ေလွ်ာက္
ဖုိ ့၊ ဆပ္ၿပာမ်ားႏွင္ ့မထိေတြ ့မကုိင္တြယ္မိေစရန္သတိၿပဳေရွာင္ႀကဥ္ဖုိ ့စတဲ ့စိတ္ကုထုံုးမ်ားနွင္ ့ကုသေပးေန
ႀကပါတယ္...
သမီးၿဖစ္သူရဲ ့အႏ ၱရယ္ႀကီးမားသည္ ့စဲြလမ္းမွဳကုိသိသြားသည္ ့မိခင္ၿဖစ္သူကေတာ ့တမ္းပက္စ္ ကုိခ်က္ၿခင္း
ပဲေက်ာင္းမွထြက္ကာ အိမ္သုိ ့ၿပန္လာေစခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
သုိ ့ေသာ္လည္း သူမရဲ ့သမီးၿဖစ္သူအေနႏွင္ ့မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါး၊ဘိန္းၿဖဴမွဳန္ ့ကုိမစြဲပဲ ဆပ္ၿပာမွဳန္ ့ကုိသာစြဲလမ္း
လို ့အနည္းငယ္ေတာ ့စိတ္ေၿဖရာရာမိတယ္လို ့ဆုိပါတယ္...

 အေမႏွင္ ့သမီး ....မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးမဟုတ္လုိ ့ေတာ္ပါေသးရဲ ့...

အစုိးရိမ္ႀကီးလို ့ေကာလိပ္ေက်ာင္းကေနထုတ္ခဲ ့လိုက္ပါတယ္...

At least it's not drugs: Tempestt poses with her mother, who was so worried about her habit that she pulled her out of colleg

 အခ်စ္နဲ ့မေတြ ့ခင္ငယ္စဥ္ကေတာ ့အၿပစ္ကင္းခဲ ့ေလသေပါ ့....

Before it all began: Tempestt as a young girl in an undated family photo
 

ဒီသတင္းေလးဖတ္ၿပီးဗဟုသုတတစ္ခုရလိုက္တာကေတာ ့ကုိယ္၀န္ေဆာင္အမ်ဴိးသမီးေတြခ်င္ၿခင္းတပ္တယ္

ဆုိတာ ခႏၶာကုိယ္မွာ သံဓါတ္စတဲ ့ဓါတ္တစ္ခုခုခ်ဴိ ့တဲ ့ယင္လည္းၿဖစ္တတ္တယ္ဆုိတာပါပဲ...

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( Women Rights ) ဆုိတာ အာရွကစခဲ ့မယ္ထင္တယ္ေနာ္...

It's the toxic compulsion that doctors claim could kill her.

But this 19-year-old girl claims she is hopelessly addicted... to eating soap.

A rare medical condition has left Tempestt Henderson, from Florida, eating up to five bars of soap a week - and washing powder too.

'I remember the first time I dipped my fingers into the washing powder,' she said.

'I dabbed the powder onto my tongue and it tasted so sweet, and salty…it just felt so right. I was hooked straight away.'

The nursing student says she knew eating soap was dangerous, but ignored the warning labels on the box in favour of licking the deadly powder daily, from the minute she woke up in the morning.

Soon she had moved onto licking the bubbles of soap in the shower, too, a habit that was getting her through up to five bars of soap a week.

'In the shower, I like to lather up a green bar of soap, and lick the bubbles. And as the soap disintegrates, I pop a tiny amount of the soap into my mouth and suck it. It’s heavenly.

'I love the clean feeling it gives me. Eating soap feels so much cleaner than just washing with it.' 

After six months of eating soap, unhappy Tempestt decided to be brave and seek medical advice. She was diagnosed with a rare disorder called PICA, which doctors told her is characterised by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive.

Sufferers have been known to compulsively eat metal, coins, chalk, batteries and even toothbrushes. It can often be caused by a mineral deficiency, which explains why pregnant women often crave eating coal when needing iron.

But in Tempestt’s case doctors believed the condition was bought on by stress.

'Things got really stressful for me when my boyfriend, Jason, split up with me and left for college,' she admitted.

'He told me he was going to college in Kansas to study business. I begged him to give the long distance relationship a go, but he told me it was over. I was devastated.'

When Tempestt herself had to leave for college, hundreds of miles away from her family home in Florida, things took a turn for the worse.

'College was five hours away from my family, and the stress got bigger. With no boyfriend and my family miles away, I got lonely, sad and depressed. I turned to bath soap and laundry detergent and my problem got increasingly worse.'

'I remember the brand my Mum always used to use - I remember the smell vividly, it was the smell of her cardigan when she hugged me, and the smell of my bed sheets as a child.

'I used to love smelling the powder, but when life got so stressful I found only eating the soap would help.

'It is an addiction, I can’t stop, and I have sought the help of a doctor who specialises in addiction. The doctor told me I must empty my house of all washing detergent and soap, anything that triggers my addiction.'

Psychologists have said that Tempestt most likely turned to soap eating as a comforting coping mechanism when she found herself away from her family.

'We use liquid at home now,' she said, 'and for some reason I’ve got no need to eat that.'