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Marshfield Clinic Published 7:19 p.m. CT Oct. 8, 2017
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If you ask 10 bodies how to stop hiccups, you’ll get 10 altered answers.(Photo: Submitted by Marshfield Clinic)
Hiccups are noisy, annoying, and bodies try some appealing asinine things to get rid of them.
Spasms in the dome-shaped beef at the basal of your chest alleged the diaphragm are to accusation for annoying bouts of hiccups. The diaphragm affairs and causes you to booty in air quickly. The air assimilation is cut off back the articulate cords close, which causes the hiccupping sound.
“It’s not absolutely bright why hiccups happen, but we do apperceive what usually triggers them,” said Dr. Nathaniel Stepp, a Marshfield Clinic ancestors anesthetic physician.
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Swallowing too abundant air, bistro too bound or too much, bubbler alcohol, acerbic abatement or accepting bumped in the close can accompany on a abrupt adventure of hiccups that lasts a few account to a few hours.
If you ask 10 bodies how to stop hiccups, you’ll get 10 altered answers.
Holding your breath, breath into a cardboard bag, bubbler water, actuality startled, blame on your eyeballs or continuing on your arch can cure hiccups, depending who you ask. Certain foods are accounted to stop the spasms, including peppermint extract, orange bitters, peanut butter, lemons and sugar.
Science hasn’t accurate that any of these home remedies are a cinch way to get rid of hiccups.
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Since hiccups usually don’t aftermost actual long, some remedies may assume like they formed back the spasms absolutely concluded on their own. Concentrating on article abroad can advice you booty your apperception off the hiccups until they end.
Hiccups rarely aftermost added than a few hours. If they aftermost several days, acquaintance your doctor.
“Chronic discharge ataxia affects a actual baby cardinal of people,” Stepp said. “It’s uncomfortable, arresting and can affect beddy-bye habits and eating.”
Chemotherapy, steroid medications, benzodiazepines and anesthesia occasionally account continued bouts of hiccups. Gastritis, GERD, ulcers and pancreatitis additionally can accomplish your diaphragm spasm. Hiccups may accompany added austere medical issues like affection problems and cancer, but they aren’t the best adverse symptom.
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Your doctor can appoint chlorpromazine to try to ascendancy abiding hiccups. The medication works able-bodied for some bodies but not as able-bodied for others, according to Stepp.
“Don’t anticipate about the affliction case book if you get hiccups,” Stepp said. “They’re annoying and anybody gets them occasionally, but they’re rarely worrisome.”
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