Meet Nandi Sisters Who Are Used To Eating Soap

Posted by: lukwago J in Life Style June 11, 2022

The 26 year old Chepchirchir Sharon gets out of her mother’s house in Nandi County and removes a piece of soap from her jacket, I thought she was getting ready to wash her clothes or hands, but shockingly, she begun eating it right away.

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Sharon who has uncontrollable appetite for soap has been eating soap for the last nineteen years.

She said she always keep either bathing or washing soap in her pocket and whenever she feels the appetite, she just removes and start eating.

I also don’t know why i keep eating soap, but i find myself enjoying it. I begun eating soap since I was 5 years old,’says Sharon.

This Nandi girl confirmed that she has never experienced stomach aches, or any other health risks from feeding on soap.

These nandi sisters have shocked villagers

Sharon isn’t the only one enjoying soap in her family. The last 8 years, Sharon said she realized that her younger sister identified as Chepkemboi Lydia also developed hunger for soap.

One day I realized that Lydia was keeping a piece of soap in her pocket, I asked her why she had it, she surprised me by saying she eats soap. From then on, we became best friends because we always borrow soap from each other, ‘she said.

These Nandi sisters have shocked residents in their village, who always visit their home to witness this heinous habit.

”When I was pregnant in 2014, I asked the doctor at Nyayo Hospital in Mosop whether soap might affect my health or my child, the doctor simply told me that it was his first time to meet someone eating soap,’she said.

She said her mother and grandmother would beat her to stop the habit of eating soap, but time reached and they gave up. She was used to and would enjoy eating soap because she knew it wasn’t poisonous.

”My mother would hide the soap away from me, but I would steal it and sometimes I would lick the powder soap instead. I also eat food as usual. I have been working so hard to stop eating soap for the past two years, but all in vain,” she added.

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