Toddler's eating disorder means he craves wooden furniture

When baby Junior kept eating inedible objects, his mum knew something was wrong.

But Jess Harry, from Brymbo, Wrexham, had never heard of Pica, external - an eating disorder that occurs most often in children and means they crave and eat objects or things with no nutritional value.

She has been forced to make her home a "Junior safe zone" but says keeping the 21-month-old safe is stressful and isolating.

He has scoffed "sand by the handful", licked nursery rugs and even ended up with lead in his blood due to old paint layers in a door frame he chewed through.

Video edited by Greg Davies