do you pick scabs?

[bednobs]

are you a picker? I love picking scabs and eating them and everyone else seems to think i'm mad. Please tell me im not the only 1?

[cazzz1975]

well I sometimes take the top off one but I wont eat them...eww

[babybombo]

I usually do pick a bit but I would never eat one !!!

I read somewhere once that picking your scabs or as it was put "not allowing a wound to heal" is a form of self-harm.
Bit strange eh ?

[raysparx1]

I thought it was a law, that you had to pick them, but bednobs you are gross, no way would i eat a scab. i flick them at the wife

[cazzz1975]

its a lovely feeling to pick them off though....

[bednobs]

dont knock it till you tried 'em! yum!

[Doc Spock]

I used to love a good scab pick. Not sure about the eating bit.

Might chuck myself down a gravel path in the morning to generate decent eventual scab.

[Doc Spock]

Having said that if you have small scab on finger say and bite it off it makes your teeth stick together, is that weird.

[nutgoneflake]

How on earth did you ever start eating them - are you crazy??!! Picking them - of course, but eating them?? I actually shuddered when I read that!

I used to know someone who regularly ate the 'sleep' from his eyes though. He said he preferred it in the morning when it was a bit crunchier.....grim...!

[Pirate1]

You know that sort of feeling that you get just before you throw up..................................................................must go

[babybombo]

Ewwwww all these people eating their bodily secretions, why ?!
Like nutgoneflake I have to ask, when and why did you first decide to eat them ?

[jno]

apparently you should remove scabs to prevent scarring; see about halfway down this page

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2157228, 00.html

the self-cannibalism bit I'm not so sure about, but I suppose they're cheaper than salted peanuts.

[sleepyj]

i eat them 2 yum lol

[jno]

well, I just hope you two are growing them organically; battery-reared scabs are morally repellent

[taperface]

Had to grin at this one, & it was compulsive reading to see how many people dithered at the idea! However, if man reverted back to a "wild" state, I'm sure this might be done more often, since if you left a scab to drop off naturally, the scent could be picked up by predators - so eating it (like animals might eat placenta's) would seem the best thing to do!

[sleepyj]

i was only joking i dont really eat them

[ImCrazy]

Yep, I do! I know it sounds gross to everyone, and I don't know why but I can't help it!! I have to do it! If I thought of anyone else doing it, it seems gross, yet I do it myself......wonder why? Strange. Something wrong with me I guess!