The answer in the space provided is anemia. It is because anemia would likely cause other people who has a type of anemia experience a craving of iron or other objects as these are symptoms associated with it. That is why the person who has iron object cravings are needed to be tested if they have some sort of anemia, in order to identify what causes him or her to do it.
Because the patient may be extremely sick and they don’t want to pay for a lot of it. Another reason is the patient may have a history of substance abuse