I don't this behavior is very unusual. Freud says that human children have instinctive coprophiliac urges -- the desire to look at poop, touch it, eat it. The reason is that kids know that babies come from mommy's stomach, and poop comes from their stomach, and they make some sort of bizarre connection, and love their feces.

The implication is that human revulsion to poop is something that is learned, not instinctual -- that poop doesn't smell bad or anything naturally, but rather we teach ourselves to hate it.

But to answer your specific question, it doesn't happen to me. I rarely eat poop. har har

Uh no, unless you want the child to become very sick.

I guess the problem will start to arise when your two-year-old starts eating poo to the exclusion of her fruits and vegetables.

"No poo until you finish your lima beans!"

I think this story is FAKE

i eat poo

it tastes good, like poo or sumthin

I think the question is phony too, but just in case, shit can cause your child to become extremely ill. It is filled with viral matter and lots of other toxic ingredients that should never be ingested.

Do not let your kid eat poop. It is extremely dangerous. There are bacteria living in your lower intestinal tract which are crucial to digestion and perfectly safe where they are. But if they enter the upper digestive tract through ingestion they can be extremely harmful, leading to serious infection and in extreme cases death without proper treatment. When small children eat each other's poop, it can lead to transmittal of very dangerous parasites into the upper digestive system and other parts of the body depending on what sort of places one of the children may have visited or gone swimming. This has led to mysterious diseases that are usually not properly diagnosed until it is too late.

By the way, I am gay.

It's not fake... kids do that. Do some research on the web. I did.

So my daughter could get very sick? Oh well. At least I don't have to feed her anymore.

HELL YEAH!! Mine is three, and a year ago she would crunch in to it like it was the greatest thing, since sliced bread. She would wipe it all over the wall and crib and anything else nearby, it was very destubing, but she eventually quit and it wasnt a problem. We'd tell her it is not what were suppose to do, of corse and she quit after a while. I think it happens when there taste buds develop more, and they realise that its not such a good idea!

Make sure she is getting enough vitamins and stuff like that. I know dogs will eat poop when thier nutritional diets are lacking (go to your local animal shelter and watch for a few hours). Otherwise it might be for attention since you probably freak out and fawn all over your kid after she eats poop...

What a cute baby! but its breath smells like shit.

ahhhhhhhhh...shit!

I think y'all best let that stupid thing die of eating it It! The Story is fake anyway, A good good parent wouldn't let their kid eat poo yo Dawgs

My friend once ate his own poopies. Him mom flipped out and called the doctor. The Dr. said it was nothing to worry about... (or did he have to take a lot of eppicac). I can't recall. Anywho, I wouldn't recommend eating poopies, maybe pop. Just make sure that there is only one "O." That is all.

Has the quality of baby food degraded that far? Maybe we should let Microsoft go and have the supreme court harass Gerber...?

I also love to eat poop. Just make sure that you are eating all your fruits and vegetables and that way you are getting all your vitamins and the poop is more beneficial to your health. Poop is soooo good. I like it cruchy, soft serve, even runny. I think every one should eat poo.. Gooooooooooo poo!

POO IS FUN I LIKE EATIN POO BECAUSE ITS GOOD 4 THA SOUL ITS SOUL FOOD BUT ITS POO I THINK ITS YUMMY

POO IS VEWWY NICE IT MAKES ME HAVE LOTS OF RICE I GO 2 THA BAFROOM BECAUSE IT HAZ MIKE TICE THE COACH OF THE VIKINGS HES NOT NICE

My brother eats poo.I think he got it off my dog.Because she eats poo all the time.

hey lady i changed my mind u r a mother f***** 4 lettin her eat poop diediediediediediediediediediediediediedie

dont worry about the poop eating. in fact, i think you should encourage it as your child grows up. just think of all the money you will save by not having to buy school lunches. you can just send your kid to school with a sandwich bag full of poop and a thermos topped of with piss. other kids will probably try to trade their lunches with your little degenerate!

buttnugget!

I CRAPED MY SELF IN SCHOOL AND THE JANITOR ATE IT

i saw two dogs together, and when one pooped, the other would eat it's crap as soon as it came out. My neighbor would see this also, and eventually ask the owner of the two dogs two some how get rid of the dirty habit

Can my dog (Wishbone) die from eating his poop

i think it is good to eat.but others might not thinks its good well let them have a try at it.

Maybe mommy's cooking aint so good, her daughter realized it, and decided to cook for herself. Mommy start eating your own poop, save yourself time and money.

i want to try to eat poop cuz it looks yummy. should i do it or not? i r 13 years old. is it bad for u if u find someones in a toilet and take it out and eat it? please give me a serious answer. thx.

sure

To Doug: EWWW!!!!!
As far as a kid eating poop is concerned I don't know what to say. I use to eat dog food when I was a kid (Purina Dog Chow is the best), plus boogers, ear wax, and occasional flakes of skin. However, I never tried my poop.
Anyway, I don't know if this is the same thing but when I consulted a vet about my dog eating poop he told me that the dog was short of some vital nutrients and was trying to extact them by eating his shit. This seems to be consistant in the animal world. Rabbits are known to regularly eat their own shit and digest it twice. Try checking your kid's diet. Other than this, I don't know.

My daughter has cerebral palsy and is mentally like a 3 year old, if she is left alone for more than 5 minutes in her room she will poop and then eat it. I am so disgusted by this and don't know what to do as I cant have my eyes on her 24 hours a day. I understand how frustrating this is and it makes me angry to read the replies that think the original letter is fake, this problem is real and is not the fault of a bad parent, I am an awesome parent but if I even take a break to go to the bathroom myself she does it. Someone needs to help us that have this problem and let us know what we can do to stop it because it can make our kids really sick.

To "another concerned mom", this may sound horrible at first but it is not meant to be. When a dog eats its poop and no other physical cause can be found (see my post on the 7th) they are given a solution that makes their poop taste really bad. This is either done by medication or by some sort of herb or food.
I imagine the same thing can be done with humans, but I'd consult a doctor about it first. If it tastes really bitter and nasty maybe your daughter won't want to eat it anymore. That would solve part of your problem.
As far as the plain old pooping is concerned I don't know. I have no experience with cerebral palsy. Most of my experience has been at a vet and with young children.
Good luck. I hope you find some relief.

We are foster parents and woke up on Christmas morning to find our new foster son had taken off his diaper, shit all over the room, then eaten most of it. It was all over his hands and face. GROSS!

I am 18 years old and have regularly eaten my own poo since I was about 5. I have never suffered health wise or in any other way. I eat it because it tastes delicious and the texture is so varied depending on what else I have previously eaten. I really recommend you try it before knocking the idea. If poo contains bacteria, well they are mine in the first place. Having said that I have at last managed to persuade my boyfriend to eat my poo. It took some doing because he didn,t fancy the idea but after seeing me eating it and enjoying the smell of it on my breath when we kissed he had a go. He quite enjoys it now. So go on give it a go and if you don't like it well at least you can honestly say you have tried it.

What is it with the jerks who come on this site and obsess about eating their own shit?!? No one cares that you guys are sick psychos with no life of your own. It's not chocolate. It is i HUMAN WASTE PRODUCT!!! No one here is a rabbit so stop eating your damn shit! And if you do, don't tell me about it. Find some twisted porn site or something. Geez!

I wondered whether you all purposefully try to act mentally retarded or if it comes naturally....by eating poo your subjecting yourself to being infected by worms (yes like dogs and horses!) and by continously eating your own crap (or others) the worms would make you so ill...that...well i don't know but horses die from worms so if they can die surely humans can too......

You ass munchers are sick and need help!

My doggy eats his crap. It is disgusting, then he wants to give you a friendly lick. The vet gave me some herb to make it bitter for him to taste.
I really do not know what the hell these other people are on to eat their own poo, maybe i can send you some of these bitter herbs!!!!

I think that eating poo is just wrong! you all are disgusting and shame on you! thats sick and unheard of! i agree with freakazoid

by the way who the hell has a name like anal thruster sick sick sick

Did you ever think that your daughter was just a budding fecophiliac? A few years ago, i was picking up my dog's shit (with my bare hands), and i just threw it down the hatch! 3 years later, my life couldn't be better! I have a hand-made life-sized poop statue of David Hasselhoff which I make love to every night, and I haven't left the house in 5 years! Thanks poop!

P.S. - Lady, you and your daughter deserve to be beaten with a long, crusty, flaky poop.

My two sons decided to wipe there crap all over there room and later on today my one year old became really ill. he started running fever and had diarrhea all day any one have any comments to help me out here.

My child was very compulsive of eating his poop when he was two. Unfortunately, every attempt we made at correcting this disgusting habit failed and little Horacio passed away due to an upper respiratory infection. It's a horrible tragedy because I feel he was destined for great things, but sadly, we'll never know his potential thanks to his ingestion of waste.

Please don't knock 'poop-eating'. It s a very natural thing to do, and despite what reports say is very nutritious. It's only become taboo in the past hundred years. Years ago I believe that it was commonplace.
I regularly engage in what is known as 'farming'. I work as a janitor and at least once a week i will trek down to the public toilets and check them for any 'floaters' that I can gather up and use to satisfy my private needs. It's perfectly natural and healthy, but if I were you, I'd watch out for the ringworms...

HERE IS A LITTLE SONG ABOUT POOP

POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS AND SICK
SO YOU DONT WANNA PICK
IT UP AND HAVE IT LIKED
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS AND DONT FORGET,
IT IS A HUMAN PIECE OF SHIT
YOU DONT WANT POOP THATS BIT
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS AND THEN YOU THINK,
ONLY RABBITS EAT THAT STINK
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS AND IF YOU WANNA EAT IT
A DEAD PERSON, YOU MAY BE IT
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS AND TRY TO EAT IT, HOPE YOU MISS
ITS REALLY COVERED IN YOUR OWN PISS
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GROSS
POOP IS GGRROOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSS
AND SO AFTER THIS SONG, DO YOU REALLY WANNA EAT POOP? BELEIVE ME, YOU DONT WANNA EAT THAT GOOP

How did you guys like my song?

I also agree with freakazoid.

THIS SIGHT IS DESGUSTING

Hey, Hilda. You're like ten, right?

young horses often eat their mothers poop

I can't believe what i am reading. I have two kids and they never touched, rubbed or ate their shit, ever! you people have kids with MAD issues. I think the parents of these kids MUST be into scat! You sick fucks need to be strung up

Is it okay for your kid to eat his own shit? Here's a question: Would you eat your own shit?
Kid's sometimes play with their pooh, sad to say, but it's actually true. Man, don't let your kid eat it's own crap. What kind of moron are you? This question has to be a joke, no one would let their kid smear shit all over his face and swallow it too.

you bunch of loonies are mad!

Lol, this is so funny! I am going to show all of my friends. My basset hound eats his poop and now we have to watch him and make sure to let him in before he goes snooping for poop...Yucky! We have to sprinkle powder on his food to make his poo taste bad. It makes me want to vom and I never let him lick me. So yes, I can picture dogs doing this (a sad sight) but never knew this as a human trait. Hey, if Freud said it was normal though, it must be true...He was a brilliant psychologist, we're learning about him in Social Psychology.

Today my chocolate took a while to get out of the oven....

Definition of poop:
P: Putrid
O: Oh so infested with nasty nasty bacteria!
O: Obviously clayish
P: Patriotic when digested popsicles.

if your child eats its feces, why not ask the doctor for an herb, like a dog?

Feed him some of that stuff that makes shit taste like rotten pineapples. Not that I know what shit tastes like. Ew!

I was babysitting a 2 yr old child when i walked into the room to find her with her diaper off dipping her sucker into her own pee. And in the paste she has eaten her own poo after smearing it all over her crib. I have refused to clean up any of this crap so i dont watch her anymore i have a 2 year old sister also BUT she has NEVER done that sort of nasty thing

i'm shitting and eating it right now MMMMMMMMMMMMM
it tastes so good. I am tired of being told by society that I can't eat my own shit. I love the taste of my own shit. You should try eating your own shit. I bet it will taste spectacular.

hiya im amy n very scared of gettin sick i was in the shower and we a no loo roll so one of our kids must of shit n wiped is ass on the towl n as i was dryin my face i got sum in my mouth could i get sick from that or wat?

PIKA

wat the fuck is wrong with u people why on eatrh would allow the behavoir of shit eating! if i ever saw my kid grabbing a log out of his traing diapers and eating it like a candy bar id ground his ass till next year for god sakes he might get collera poop isnt fun its disgusting thers a reason it comes out of your ass peple

I hate to alarm you but i worked at a correctional facility for a while that housed an inmate who rolled his poo up into litle balls and placed thme on saltines for a snack. he was not allowed in the general population. fyi he also showed me his weiner on a daily basis

we always shoot dogs for eating shit!
SO SHOOT THE KID!!!

If the above post is supposed to be funny, I'm not laughing.

I should also mention that I drink my own urine on a regular basis, and have aquired quite a taste for it. I haven't been sick in years, as urine has anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. It is nature's best medicine.

I hate to tell you this, but functioning adults are quite capable of such repugnant acts as eating their own poop. I have done it many times. It bothers me only in the sense that I feel so alone in it, but it is an incredible turn-on! I have done it often with no detrimental effects. I haven't gotten sick, and I haven't turned into a dog! ;-) I am picky about it, though. It has to be very firm - no runny or soft poo for me. I stick my finger up my ass, and when I feel a hardened turd, I am instantly aroused in anticipation of popping it into my mouth. Human behavior is complicated, and only a few have delved into the "darkest" of human desires. I would love to taste the feces of a beautiful woman. That is my dream.

all of you that say this story is fake must have no kids, my two year old will take her diaper off as soon as i leave the room and eat it before i can get to her, lots of kids do it at that age! my neighbors kid ate every kind of poo he could find, and it isn't a bad mother that lets her kid eat poo, it's not like we LET them, they just do it, what do you expect that we follow our two year olds around every where they go every second of the day...yeah i'd hate to see what your house looks like, you would never be able to get anything done!

when i go poop i let it fall into the toilet. After this i wipe my ass and flush both the poop, and the used toilet paper...
this is when i return to regularly scheduled programming

Jesus Christ you are a pig!

keep your comments to yourself, potty mouth

Well theres were they get it! Eat shit and die! Dont eat shit!

wow
thats odd

this stuff is a whole load of sh**. i am only 13 and i guarentee, any moran who eats there own crap needs to be put in a cell w/ a strait jacket and a diaper. if ur 2 and don't know anybetter thats one thing, but at the same time, even at two u have a little sense. if ur 18 and doing it for a turn on or even a habit, ITS UN HEALTHY!! thers a reason it goes in a toilet instead of a damn bowl! this site makes me sick, if this site was supposed to make me laugh, it didn't.

i wrote both those comments. i am not afraid to show my name!

your all sick fuks talking about poop from the sounds off things ya all seem to be chatting it

If you people weren't so provincial, you would have known that people have been eating poop for thousands of years as a staple of their diet. In addition, the eating of poop has been featured in several cultural and spriritual ceremonies. For example, the Yanomamo BlowDart with Poop ceremony, where they clothe themselves in fried bananas and feathers, and blow little poo nuggets out of blowdarts into wooden pipes containing medicinal herbs, then smoking it and dancing the Ringtail.

i hope ur jokig yuck!!!

My comment is to add to the dogs.There is one reason why a dog would eat its own shit. Maybe because his nose was stuck in it tomany times in house training.

You know how sometimes, you take a shit, and they look like a bunch of little Raisinettes? Well, I tried one once, just in case they really were Raisinettes. They weren't.

You might think that's sick, but I would have felt really dumb if I had flushed a bunch of perfectly good Raisinettes.

This can't be good for anyone to eat shit. it contains so much bad stuff in it, and babys can get a retardation from this and affect the kidneys and die! The people who say they are eating shit are lying or are on some bad bad drugs. So please don't let your children eat thier own shit, it could kill them!!!!

I know eating shit is unhealthy but I can't help thinking about eating it. I've tasted it before it's bitter don't like it. But it still doesn't stop me from thinking about eating it. The fact that it's bitter I want to add sugar in it maybe the bitter taste will go away. Like coffee or chocolate.

I think this is so stupid. If you love your child, you wouldn't let them eat shit. I mean, it could kill your child, but if you don't care about her...then let her eat shit.

Ok, kids eating poop. Kids do tend to stick odd thing in their mouths. Most kids have tried boogers (usually on a dare). I of coure have, I also use to chew on my fingernails.

Sometimes when a child sticks really odd things in their mouth: paint chips, dirt, of poop, it can be a precurser to a disease called pica. Pica is usually described as a deficiency of Chrommium (an essential mineral)

This is something that a pediatrician should know about.

It's not nice to fool mother nature.

if anyone here has found a real reason to help this problem let me know ...

I'm sorry; that's unclear to me. Did you actually mean to say "WAY to help"? Or do you indeed not see any "reason" to stop a kid from eating poop?

Just wonderin'.

Anonymous Coward 11/16/06

Yes, two words, it's disgusting.

GGG, sadly, I think that dude sees nothing wrong in eating poop.
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I am winter's hurricane, I am the great blizzard of 1899, and no body shall be exempt from my wrath.

These people claiming to eat their own feces are joking. Their made up stories are very gross.

I'm very afraid that you're wrong.

Oh, that I could go back into the fragile bubble in which you still believe such things didn't happen.

But alas, they do.

This is true, kids do this, at least some do. Parents don't let them,idiots, they just catch them! They sneek and do it. It's the most disgusting anguish a parent could have to deal with. I caught my 10 yr old, today, She spends too long in the B-room. I kept checking on her to make sure she isn't filling up the camode with paper(done before)I was cheking on the washing machine when I glanced in,she was wiping her butt, I thought It's about time you get done, when she wiped she looked at the paper and put it up to her mouth, opened her mouth and was about to lick, eat, I'm not sure, I wasn't going to wait and see, I screamed noooo! She tried to deny it, I said, I caught you! She could not explain why! Well, by gosh her DR better find out why! She's gonna see him this week,and definitely start some sort of therapy! A parent that doesn't discuss such disturbing behaviors, no matter the age, with a doc, syc,ped, is not a fit parent. This is gross shocking, disturbing behavior. I stoped her from doing it this time, how many times before this? It makes me sick. She has problems with her stomach, acid reflux, I'm thinking the brown stuff she spits and pukes up may not be acid, it might be poop!!!I had her checked for H-polori, neg results. E- Coli is next, definitely. Nothing prepares you for this kind of stuff!!! I don't think the others are asking if it's OK, there dumbfounded, disturbed, confused, concerned as to why there kid did it too!!! DUH

This is the most horrific thing a parent could catch there child doing.

Should I mention 2 girls, one cup?

Na, better not.

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Did I just fart?.... hope so!