that is a quote from emedicine.com, a favourite site of mine as a pessimist and hypochondriac. i learned this piece of information when i looked up "hiccups" after having had them on and off for... oh, about 4 hours now.
and these aren't your average "oops i ate peanut butter too fast, better hold my breath" hiccups. these are LOUD. and painful. and, convinced that i was about to end up as a case study on "untold stories of the er" or something, i decided to look them up.
apparently, hiccups are really not anything serious. unless, of course, as i learned from emedicine.com, you have them for 60 years. which is possible, but far more likely in men.
good to know.
so far i have tried: being upside down, eating sugar, holding my breath, drinking water, being scared. the hiccups continue to come and go according to some mysterious cosmic schedule.
any suggestions, quotes from The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies would be greatly appreciated.
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I remember plugging a friend's ears with my fingers (very, very tightly) while she drank a tall glass of water in it's entirety without taking a break. She had to tell me to plug her ears really tightly to prevent any air from escaping from her ear/nasal cavaties before she even started. I can't remember if she plugged her nose while she drank or not but it definitely worked.
Some had to bring it up:
http://uberviolet.blogspot.com/2006/10/medical-training-is-not-required-to.html#comments
Er, I mean:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=2299306
LOL i will keep that in mind for next time. they went on and off until about 1am. Fortunately, they have stopped. For now.
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