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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Athena Stavrou & Alice Peacock

Tot who eats rocks and paint due to rare condition gets lead poisoning from garden mud

The mother of a boy whose rare condition makes him eat things like rocks and dirt says the mud in her garden has given her son lead poisoning.

Layla Carter, 27, says her three-year-old Vinnie has Pica - a rare eating disorder that makes him eat things such a rocks or mud.

Ms Carter noticed last year that her sons stool was white, but doctors could not come up with an explanation.

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