Woman gives birth to stone in Yola

South LGA of Adamawa State, on Tuesday,
delivered a sizable stone. Bello narrated her story
at the opening ceremony of Vesico vaginal fistula
(VVF) free medical treatment in Yola Specialists
Hospital. Bello, who is also a VVF patient, told the
gathering that after four years pregnancy, she
finally delivered a sizable stone last year.
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"I was holding a pregnancy for the duration
of four years, which I bitterly suffered
because of the heavy weight of what is
contained in the stomach,” she said. “It was
last year around June, I started feeling
labour and I was in that condition for three
days and finally I delivered a stone.”
She said that it was after the delivery she
now discovered that she was affected with
VVF. Responding, Dr Sunday Lengmang,
Director VVF Centre, Jos, confirmed that
giving birth to a stone or any object was
possible.
Lengmang was in Yola to attain to the VVF
patients for the duration of one week .
“Stones and other solid objects can form in a
human body in different cases,” he said. “Stones
can form in a gall bladder, urinary bladder and
other several parts of urinary tracks.”
The medical expert explained that why
VVF  patients were prone to giving birth to stones
or any solid object was because they drink less
water to reduce urine leakage.
He said as a result of taking less water their urine
become concentrated.
“Inside urine, there is salt, sodium and chlorine,
and when the urine becomes concentrated, the
salt becomes crystallised and finally forms itself
and later ends up as stone,” he said.
Lengmang confirmed that three VVF patients had
stones in their placentas and they would undergo
surgery.
He said the size of the stones uncovered from the
three women was six by seven and three by four
centimetres.
Lengmang advised VVF patients to drink more
water instead of taking less to prevent them from
risk of having stones.