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“The most significant treatment for hiccups is likely a tincture of time,” says Chun — in other words, doing nothing. Sometimes, ignoring the hiccups and not worrying about stopping them can ...
Hiccups which last more than a month are considered “intractable” and can interfere with eating and drinking, speaking and sleep, adds Dr. Tanchel. “This can cause severe emotional stress.”
Hiccups can also be a symptom of a medical condition. Pullins says that neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's disease, for instance, can cause one to experience hiccups.
Folk cures for hiccups are common and varied. Hiccups are treated medically only in severe and persistent (termed "intractable") cases. [4] Numerous medical remedies exist but no particular treatment is known to be especially effective, generally because of a lack of high-quality evidence. [23] [24]
Hyoscine butylbromide, also known as scopolamine butylbromide [4] and sold under the brandname Buscopan among others, [5] is an anticholinergic medication used to treat abdominal pain, esophageal spasms, bladder spasms, biliary colic, [6] and renal colic.
Again, review my theoretical reasoning of the hiccup function, which explains why even this remedy is likely to work. Raggabast ( talk ) 21:18, 28 December 2009 (UTC) [ reply ] One cure of hiccups that I learned from an older gentleman that was a bartender.
Let’s be honest, hiccups are annoying and can be frustratingly hard to stop. But they’re something that most mammals deal with, including dogs, horses and even squirrels.While the majority of ...
Aspiration can result in patient death through a variety of mechanisms. It is important to recognize and diagnose early in order to improve patient outcomes. Death from aspiration and aspiration-related syndromes is most common in elderly patients with known baseline risk factors, though it frequently goes unrecognized. [18]