hiccups record IT'S news that Cecil won't want to hear - but the record for
hiccups stands at 68 YEARS.
When it started I thought it was ordinary
hiccups - if I drank water it would stop after a while.
He said: "I try not to let it bother me, but it's a bit embarrassing - people think 'he's drunk' and I have to explain I suffer from
hiccups.
Hiccups usually only last for a few minutes, then go away on their own.
Everyone gets
hiccups, but some people suffer intractable
hiccups that last longer than a month, according to two Loyola Medicine neurologists.
Our patient only complained of
hiccups and displayed no other symptoms that would indicate myocardial ischemia.
It was not clear what precipitated the patient's
hiccups.
Hichki, which translates to
hiccup, centres on Naina, who suffers from speech impairment.
In contrast to eupneic breathing,
hiccups combine a sudden powerful coordinated burst of the inspiratory muscles of the thorax, diaphragm, neck, accessory, and external intercostal muscles with an inhibition of the expiratory abdominal muscles, active movement of the tongue toward the roof of the mouth, and active adduction of the glottis, which occurs after the beginning of inspiratory flow and it is responsible for the peculiar sound [1].
No affect, except that a short while later I had to take the
hiccups to the loo.
But with no foreseeable cure for MS, he fears he will have
hiccups for the rest of his life.