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Chronic hiccups are known as intractable hiccups or intractable singultus and can last weeks, months, or even years. He says that some people are also more prone to experience hiccups than others.
Sometimes, hiccups can persist for days. Hiccups lasting longer than 48 hours are called persistent hiccups, Chun adds. Rarely, hiccups can last longer than one month, which are called intractable ...
Hiccups that last longer than 48 hours or a month can be caused by a variety of conditions, including side effects from medication or surgery, heart disease, nervous system diseases and ear, nose ...
American Charles Osborne (1894–1991) had hiccups for 68 years, from 1922 to 1990, [37] and was entered in the Guinness World Records as the man with the longest attack of hiccups, an estimated 430 million hiccups. [38] In 2007, Florida teenager Jennifer Mee gained media fame for hiccuping around 50 times per minute for more than five weeks ...
My roommate has had hiccups for the past 2 hours, I just spoon-fed her some vinegar (forced it!) and they have stopped. Perhaps it is a combination of swallowing and shock that cures this affliction? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.174.72.34 ( talk ) 11:17, 10 August 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]
She frowned, thinking the demon had returned. I only sneered. Take your best shot, I said to myself. I have 63 hiccup-crushing remedies on my laptop upstairs, only a few keystrokes from being ...
As the day continued, the DJIA dropped 95.46 points (3.81 percent) to 2,412.70, and it fell another 57.61 points (2.39 percent) the next day, down over 12 percent from the August 25 all-time high. On Friday, October 16, the DJIA fell 108.35 points (4.6 percent). [ 11 ]
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