Midwifery Officer and Certified Life Coach, Rev. Maria, has emphatically stated that using kayanmaata consistently can be very addictive and harmful to the body.
According to her, everything consumed as medicine goes through a process in the body called “the first pass effect and this is where whatever we take goes to the liver for detoxification.”
She told Mercy Bee the Ekumfi Princess on e.tv Ghana’s Girl show, “You should know that if it’s not organic or a natural source, when it gets to the liver, it puts pressure on the liver which can give you liver disease. This is something you’ll have to be using forever because you’re douching.”
She advised ladies to be extra careful on how to choose the products they use on themselves and how to use them.
“There are a lot of natural remedies to keep the vagina tight and sweet, but most ladies don’t like to ask questions so they don’t know. Hence, they rather go for the unhealthy, fake products which can cause them harm,” she added.
The midwife went on to say that another risk factor of long-term douching, especially with inorganic products is that “although you get your vagina sweet and tight you can get complications during childbirth.
It will take long time for you to have your baby because your vagina is tight and you might have a lot of tears in the process. It can also lead to excessive bleeding and death so ladies should be careful,” she cautioned.
By: Gyamfuah Owusu-Ackom