An Ohio woman is suing her gynecologist for allegedly spraying a chemical used in drain cleaner into her private parts.


The woman, who is only being identified as "Laura," said she visited her gynecologist, Dr. John Black,[1] in his Akron, Ohio, office for a routine gynecological exam called a colposcopy.


At one point, she said Dr. Black squirted some liquid from a spray bottle marked "vinegar" onto her sex organs and into her vaginal canal.


She immediately felt horrible pain[2] and burning down there.


"It was like an open cut with rubbing alcohol being poured into it," she said, according to UPI.com.


Laura said Black noticed her reaction and placed a tiny amount of the solution he used on her into a cup.


Medical records say Black "tasted it on the tip of his tongue which immediately started to burn."



Then he allegedly told his suffering patient, "I'm breaking all the rules" [3] and proceeded to irrigate the burned area with three bottles of saline solution. He also applied a cream inside her to numb the pain -- without wearing gloves, according to Laura's husband, Paul.


"He puts an ungloved dirty finger inside her and rubs a numbing cream inside her. It's disgusting," Paul told WKYC-TV.


Tests on Laura determined that the chemical that her doctor thought was vinegar was actually potassium chloride, a chemical found in drain cleaner, that can decompose human flesh.


A few hours after seeing Laura, Black called her and suggested she go to to Akron General Hospital’s emergency room. There, doctors discovered a plastic bottle cap inside her cervix,[4] RawStory.com reported.


In addition, they discovered the pH level of the liquid sprayed inside Laura’s body was not the harmless 7.5 level that Black claimed, but was 12 or higher, a level damaging to the human body.


Laura and Paul have filed a malpractice suit against Black and his employer, Paragon Health Associates. The company denies all their allegations, but said that Black sprayed what he thought was a vinegar liquid into her vagina,[5] USA Today reported.


Laura said she experiences ongoing, irregular bleeding as a result of Black's actions and is no longer able to have sex[6] with her husband. She also said she hoped to have more children, but now believes she will need a hysterectomy, the Daily Mail reported.