Meet the kid who loves guzzling ink, toilet water and shower gel!

Normally, children are fed with milk and juices for healthy growth, but thats certainly not the case with Yang Yang, a nine-year-old Chinese boy, who has grown to 65 kgs on an extremely unusual drink diet.

New Delhi, Sep 14 : Normally, children are fed with milk and juices for healthy growth, but that's certainly not the case with Yang Yang, a nine-year-old Chinese boy, who has grown to 65 kgs on an extremely unusual drink diet.

According to the Chongqing Evening News, Yang Yang, who belongs to Southwest China's Chongqing region, likes drinking ink, toilet water, shower gel and things of the sort.

And the boy's odd taste is not recent, for his mother says that he has been growing on this strange appetite since he was very young, and now weighs 65 kilograms, almost twice the weight of ordinary kids of his age.

Initially Yang Yang's parents thought the boy might have lost his sense of taste, and thus gave him a bitter herbal drink in an ink bottle. But this assumption was proved wrong as Yang Yang frowned after tasting the drink, showing that his sense of taste was fully intact.

Worried about their son, Yang Yang's parents took him to many hospitals in the past year, but the boy still retained the odd habit.

In order to get special treatment, Yang Yang was recently sent to a special boarding training centre in the city, where doctors diagnosed that he may be suffering from a type of cittosis, an unnatural desire for odd "food" that disturbs patients' normal lifestyle and result in mal-nutrition.

The doctors also claim that Yang Yang's overweight may have something to do with his bizarre diet.

The medics advised the boy's parents and teachers to work closely with the centre to develop Yang Yang's understanding and cognitive capabilities in order to make him kick the habit gradually.

ANI