Woman puts potatoe in private part to avoid getting pregnant

A 22-year-old woman, from Colombia, who was
hospitalised with acute stomach pain, used a
potato as a contraceptive following her mother’s
advice.
According to Colombian media, doctors treating a
woman for stomach pain were shocked to find a
very unlikely cause for it – a potato inside her
vagina. The discovery was made when the
woman, from the central Colombian town of
Honda, went to hospital complaining of
abdominal pains.
Later the young lady confessed that she was
advised by her mother to use the technique to
avoid becoming pregnant. But by the time
doctors discovered the potato, it had apparently
germinated and grown roots inside
her. However after removing it, doctors
confirmed there would be no lasting damage to
the woman’s health.
The unnamed woman told doctors, “My mum
told me that if I didn’t want to get pregnant, I
should put a potato up there, and I believed her.”
The bizarre case sheds light on a lack of sex
education and awareness about contraception in
young people. It was also reported about the
lack of ‘sex talk’ between young people and their
parents had created a void of information. This,
in turn, had created high levels of sexually
transmitted diseases and unwanted
pregnancies.