Craving bleach

Not bleach, but the floor cleaner I do

I feel genuinely crazy, I went to my mums yesterday and bleached her bathroom😭😭

well at least your house will be all clean😂x

I've heard of this my midwife said it's called pica. It happens in pregnancy if you want to eat non food things. Sounds similar to what you're experiencing. It's all the hormones!

my old flat mate had this, it’s called pica. She started eating the dry wall. I think it’s got something to do with low iron but i’m not 100% on that x

I’m like this with dettol wipes and the smell of fresh leather. I’ve just found out I’m anaemic though xx

It’s called Pica and your likely lacking some sort of nutrients probably iron as this is the most common one to lack. I would definitely talk to your doctor because you need to do a blood test and get this under control before you have your baby it’s takes time to bring your levels back up and we don’t have a lot of time before January this is my situation right now and the last thing you want is to be anemic at birth, if you can’t get them up with supplements ( I personally recommend floradix!) then transfusions will be done. I do this with laundry soap, dish soap, gas, bleach. Pica is not always from a deficiency but a good amount of the time it is.

I’ve had blood tests done on Monday, I’ve got my results in but I can’t make sense of them🙃 waiting for my midwife to let me know if there’s an issue x

Did they test your iron levels? Ideally you should be seeing results for something called a “routine chemistry panel” and in that panel should be results for iron, TIBC, Iron Sat, and UBIC. They should also be checking your hemoglobin levels to make sure your not anemic due to lack of Iron. I’m sure your midwife will make sure they tested all this if you express your concerned about possible iron deficiency! 😁 Best of luck, this is not fun to deal with the best way I can describe it is like jonesing for a cigarette, I’ve been in the grocery store before and literally abandoned my shopping to wander the laundry/cleaning isle for way too long and the workers probably thought I was bat shit crazy, lol..it’s funny but also not because it does cause some mental distress when you get sick of it!