It was a scary sight for medical operatives in one of the clinics located at the central Colombian town of Honda when they discovered potato growing in a woman’s vagina.
It was learnt that a 22-year-old woman had placed a potato in her private part after her mother told her it was a potent tool to preventing pregnancy.
According to a news story by Colombia Reports, on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, the Colombian woman eventually started experiencing excruciating abdominal pains and when she could not bear it anymore, she finally decided to proceed to a nearby local hospital to seek help.
It was learnt that she felt embarrassed as she narrated to the nurses how she had put a potato into her vagina two weeks earlier following an advice from her mother that it was going to prevent her from getting pregnant. The potato allegedly sprouted inside her and had roots.
From the discovery made by the nurses who attended to the Colombian woman, the roots of the potato had clearly sprouted from her genitals.
The medical personnel at the hospital tactically removed the potato without surgery and it has been said that there is no physical effects of the removal on the woman.
Recently, the Colombia’s Family Welfare Institute have launched a campaign aimed at reducing the high levels of teenage pregnancy in Colombia, it was made known that young people generally refuse to use conventional contraception methods, such as condoms and contraceptive pills. This they said have contributed highly to most of them having premarital sex and ending up with unplanned pregnancy.
