Two unrelated children were taken to the doctor after their appetites became uncontrollable.
The children, a 14-year-old and a 2-year-old, did not know one another and did not share any behavioral characteristics that might lead to the shared condition.
They were suffering from “intense hyperphagia,” or excessive and uncontrollable eating, according to a case report published on June 15 in The New England Journal of Medicine.
