My 99-yr old aunt with advanced dementia will work on a plate of food but then sometimes start eating the napkin. I think it's because the dementia detaches them from what's real and what's not. They are imagining it is something other than TP. We just have to monitor her.
It's athing called pica, I believe. A 'need' or desire to eat unedible things. Pregnant women get this--the dementia patients do too.
I don't know what to do but give them something better to chew on. They make a thing called "chewelry" which is used for helping babies who have oral fixations have something safe to chew on--also to break them of the binky habit. I wonder if your LO would feel the same satisfaction with those?
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I don't know what to do but give them something better to chew on. They make a thing called "chewelry" which is used for helping babies who have oral fixations have something safe to chew on--also to break them of the binky habit. I wonder if your LO would feel the same satisfaction with those?