By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline
Published: 15:59 BST, 13 June 2019 | Updated: 16:00 BST, 13 June 2019
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A woman began lactating from her vulva after giving birth, an extraordinary case report has revealed.
The 29-year-old mother, in Austria, started to experience severe pain on one side of her vulva – the parts of a woman's genitals which are visible from the outside.
She said that just days after giving birth she had painful swelling in the area and a milky white liquid was leaking out of her.
On closer examination doctors realised the fluid was milk and the woman actually had breast tissue growing inside her groin.
An Austrian woman developed pain and swelling in accessory breast tissue which had grown in her groin, and started leaking milk four days after she had her second child (stock image)
The woman, not named by her doctor, Dr Richard Mayer at Kepler University Hospital in Linz, had just given birth to her second child before the bizarre problem began.
Dr Mayer said he had never seen a case like this, Live Science reported.
It is believed to have caused her so much pain because of stitches put in after childbirth.
The stitches were covering an 'excretory duct' which the milk was trying to get out of, the case
