DON’T Be Tardy star Kim Zolciak-Biermann made potato necklaces to help bring down her twins Kaia and Kane’s fevers, and she’s “convinced” it worked.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum, 41, is “flabbergasted” by the remedy, which her daughter Brielle, 22, first sent her on Twitter a little while ago.
The idea popped back into Kim’s head when she was trying to think of ways to cure her 6-year-olds’ flu symptoms, and she was quick to start making the jewelry with her husband, Kroy.
Supposedly, the potato chunks turn black as they extract the toxins from within someone’s body, which is why Kim told her followers to look at the Kaia’s darkened necklace, noting: “[She] hasn’t had a fever since about — how long after we put this thing on?
“ About three or four hours? It’s finally come down and breaking.
“She’s kind of hanging around 99, actually, but it’s black. Nuts. I really actually think this works.”
The reality star documented it all on her Instagram Stories, giving fans updates and showing how people can make the potato chains themselves.
She explained: “If you guys are just seeing this, this is just potatoes that we’ve cut up and put on a little string and made a necklace out of it.
“Kroy just cut up the potatoes, just raw potatoes, peel them. And then we’re using fishing line.
“I don’t think you can use thread because I don’t think the thread would hold and go through the potato and be as strong.”
Kane’s necklace apparently got a little wet when he was in the bathtub, which is why his “didn’t work as well” as his sister’s, but Kim said eventually his fever did come down three degrees and the potatoes blackened.
She added: “This is pretty nuts… if your child has a high fever, this is the move.”
The mother of six continued: “I know if you leave potatoes on the counter they’re gonna ripen or whatever you’re gonna want to say, [but] this is a whole other ballgame.
“…This is seriously unbelievable. I’m flabbergasted.”
She gave one final update to reveal what her leftover potato looked like after sitting on the counter for a while, showing how it’s “not even close” to looking like the necklaces.
Kim concluded: “I’m telling you it works. For sure.”
At the end of December, one woman shared this “potato necklace” remedy on Twitter, saying it drew out her son’s fever, and was ridiculed for it, leading her to delete the tweet, but not before it was posted to Reddit.
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