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The unmistakable, sudden muscle movements and distinct "hic" sound are an all too common occurrence, especially while eating or drinking. While hiccups are usually brief and go away on their own ...
There are many folk remedies for hiccups, including headstanding, drinking a glass of water upside-down, being frightened by someone, breathing into a bag, eating a large spoonful of peanut butter and placing sugar on or under the tongue. [27] [28] Acupressure, either through actual function or placebo effect, may cure hiccups in some people ...
"Drink from a cup from the opposite side," he said. "Always did the trick for me." Water, giver of life, was cited repeatedly as a slayer of hiccups, sometimes with additives.
Hiccup attacks usually stop by themselves after a little while. Having a drink will time after time (in most cases) put an end to hiccups immediately, and thus leave little doubt about what actually made them end. Cf my theoretical reasoning in the function chapter Raggabast 21:52, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
Between dinner parties, cookie exchanges and festive cocktails, most people report eating and drinking more than usual during the holidays, gaining on average 1 to 2 pounds of body weight. Now ...
Aerophagia (or aerophagy) is a condition of excessive air swallowing, which goes to the stomach instead of the lungs.Aerophagia may also refer to an unusual condition where the primary symptom is excessive flatus (farting), belching (burping) is not present, and the actual mechanism by which air enters the gut is obscure or unknown. [1]
If you regularly feel drowsy after eating even after making dietary adjustments, ask your doctor to administer the hemoglobin A1c test. The test measures average blood sugar levels and shows how ...
Burping is usually caused by swallowing air when eating or drinking and subsequently expelling it, in which the expelled gas is mainly a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen. [2] Burps can be caused by drinking beverages that contain dissolved carbon dioxide, such as beer and carbonated drinks; in these cases, the expelled gas is mainly carbon dioxide.