High prevalence of kaolin consumption in migrant women living in a major urban area of France: A cross-sectional investigation.

ABSTRACT: Geophagia is a feeding behavior involving the regular intake of soil, including clay-like kaolin. Frequent in Africa, kaolin consumption is associated with heavy metal intoxication, iron and other micronutrient deficiencies, geohelminth infection and inactivation of concomitantly taken drugs. It is expected that this practice would be imported into an asylum country during the immigration process. To confirm this hypothesis, a single center, cross-sectional study was conducted at the University Hospital of Nantes, France, whose main objective was to assess whether the prevalence of kaolin consumers was high in a migrant population living in a large French metropolitan area (the city of Nantes). Each woman consulting for the first time at the Medical and Psychosocial Gynecology Obstetric Un

SUBMITTER: Caillet P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6668907 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature