A 19-year-old woman with urinary incontinence had her vagina removed

A teen needed a cork removed from her vagina after it left her incontinent.

The 19-year-old, from Serbia, sought help after suddenly finding herself unable to control her bladder.

She admitted to paramedics that she pushed the cork, apparently from a bottle of hairspray, three-and-a-half years ago during an “impaired judgment” during sex.

But the woman, who did not give her name, was too afraid of the paramedics’ reactions to seek help out of “shame and fear of judgment.”

The Belgrade woman also tried to remove the cork herself but was unsuccessful.

write in Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent GynecologyMedics said the woman was still having regular periods.

On examination, doctors found swollen tissue around the cork inside her vagina.

The date of the accident was not disclosed in the case report provided by the paramedics of the University Hospital Dr. Dragiša Misović Center in Belgrade.

The cork was extracted using standard gynecological tools.

But doctors then amputated the urethra — the tube through which urine exits the body — after discovering other complications.

The woman had developed an opening between her bladder and the vaginal wall – known medically as a vesicovaginal fistula – causing urine to leak from her vagina.

According to the NHS, the hole can form due to difficulties during childbirth or certain types of surgery or following radiotherapy.

Some people may also be born with a fistula.

It is unclear if a hairspray cork was behind the hole.

However, foreign bodies are known to cause fistulas.

Doctors in Belgrade treated the fistula by catheterizing the woman, before referring her to the urology department for further diagnosis and treatment.

In addition to the cork, other items medics have recovered from her vagina over the years include plastic aerosol caps, a plastic cup, and even a child’s toy.

There are also hundreds of reports of paramedics Recovery of objects stuck in the rectum – with the first case recorded in the medical literature in the 16th century.

NHS doctors are no stranger to dealing with similar incidents, with data analysis last year finding around 400 ‘foreign’ objects were pulled from Englishwomen’s anuses each year.

This has been estimated to cost the taxpayer around £340,000 a year for things such as medicines to perform procedures and manpower for NHS staff.

But inserting objects into the rectum, also known as anal play, carries a number of risks.

In addition to the stuff getting stuck, it can perforate the intestines which can be fatal because material from the digestive tract can leak to other parts of the body, causing infection.