Woman gives birth to stone in Yola Amina Bello

Woman gives birth to
stone in Yola
Amina Bello, 25-year old woman in
Yolde Pate 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.
Telegraphng.com reports
"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.