I have a mean case of the hiccups.
Any advice?
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2299306
Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage.
Odeh M, Bassan H, Oliven A.
Department of Inernal Medicine, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
A 60-year-old man with acute pancreatitis developed persistent hiccups after insertion of a nasogastric tube. Removal of the latter did not terminate the hiccups which had also been treated with different drugs, and several manoeuvres were attempted, but with no success. Digital rectal massage was then performed resulting in abrupt cessation of the hiccups. Recurrence of the hiccups occurred several hours later, and again, they were terminated immediately with digital rectal massage. No other recurrences were observed. This is the second reported case associating cessation of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. We suggest that this manoeuvre should be considered in cases of intractable hiccups before proceeding with pharmacological agents.
PMID: 2299306 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
I have a tried and true method if you’re interested. Heck I think this will be a blog post!!!!
Thanks Epi!
:)
This sounds weird, but has never failed to stop ‘em in my presence:
Fill a glass with water. Stand up. Drink the water from the opposite side of the glass than normal. (Means you have to lean over and bend at the waist to do it.) A couple swallows should do the trick.
Let me know your results. Good luck.
Next time…a heaping spoonful of peanut butter. Never fails unless of course you are allergic and then it will kill you.
A heaping spoonful of sugar – kinda gross in its graininess, but it works. :3
I drank a glass of water and it worked.
No digital rectal massage for me thank you very much.