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28Jun/090

Hiccup, How to Stop?

Hiccup, various type of disease symptoms??

Everyone can get hiccups. From infants to the elderly. Although likely to be taken lightly, It is a various types of disease symptoms, especially when going for a long time.

Hiccups are sudden contractions of the diaphragm unintended, and generally occurs over and over again every minute. The air was suddenly pass into the lungs causing glottis (the space between the vocal cords) to close, and causes hic sound.

There are 2 kinds of hiccups, namely:

  • Minor hiccups, which lasted for 1 - 2 hours only. The most common cause of this category because of the strain on the stomach. In addition, also due to sudden weather changes (for example, from cold to hot or vice versa), eating foods that are too hot or cold, drink alcohol, smoke too much, or experiencing stress. These hiccups will disappear by itself when we sleep.
  • Hiccups that are fixed / permanent (persistance). This type of hiccups usually occurs continuously, not only for days but could be many months. Hiccup is a symptom of a disturbance in the brain (eg symptoms of brain stem tumor), symptoms of a stroke (the stroke patient often presents a hiccup), infection in the central nervous system (brain), the herpes in the chest so that disrupt the nervous edge, while also because of metabolic disorders such as diabetes, or renal disease patients. Also due to electrolyte disturbances (lack of potassium), including the influence of drugs such as steroids or sleeping pills.

For minor hiccup, there are a few tips that can be used, among other things:

  • Drinking hot water
  • Drag and waste of breath, and then patch in a paper bag or closed for about one minute. Nose and mouth into the bag. Its purpose is to hold and increase of CO2, because decreasing the amount of CO2 in the blood can cause hiccups. After a minute, you can rest and then repeat it again.
  • Sleep lying with your knees bent at the abdomen. Do it a few moments until the hiccups disappeared. Another treatment is often done by holding the breath or swallow a sugar cube. Could also drink cold water and gradually release it from the wrong side of the glass. All were intended to affect the nervous system, so stop the rhythm of the hiccups.

For a permanent hiccups, the patient is recommended to drink Chlorpromazin and Tegretol. These drugs should be a doctor's prescription, you know! Although powerful, these two drugs, it is also a side effect, which causes drowsiness. If the hiccups do not go away for years, needs to be done surgery, in which the nerves to be cut diagfragma.

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26Jun/090

How To Stop Hiccup

Certainly no longer feel comfortable eating or when you are doing an important meeting suddenly distinctive hiccup sound

There was a tip worked to overcome hiccups, have been proved and is always done when hiccup attack.

How :

  • Take a glass of cold water / normal, not hot or too cold in order not to hurt / sore mouth and your teeth, because you have to drink to your mouth full (cheeks inflate), and should not be swallowed, but was arrested in the mouth.
  • Then take a standing position, keep your head down as if to kiss the knee. (down).
  • The next step is to begin to straighten your body back slowly until the straight as you swallowed water in your mouth with upholding the position of your body. So when you up the total water in the mouth was not there.
  • Ye…... feel the effect.
  • if it still happens hiccups, repeat once again. But usually just once hiccups disappeared.
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4Jun/090

The Ways to Stop Hipcup

Hiccup is actually a phenomenon that involves the nervous and respiratory systems. This term appears and is used to mimic the sound issued when hiccups (Hic..Hic. ).
Actually, what happened? When someone hiccups, there contractions respiratory muscles, the diaphragm and muscles between the ribs, which caused the movement's breath suddenly followed by a closed glottis (airway valve) is not normal that a voice .. “hic hic “ Usually, hiccups appeared 4-60 times / minute with a fairly regular intervals and lasted several minutes. But sometimes lasted more than 48 hours, and can also be up for days.

Hiccups can be experienced by anyone. The fetus in the womb, the children and adults can experience it all. However, it is said the children more often experienced a hiccup compared to adults.

Stop hiccups

There are many ways people do to try to eliminate the hiccups. Theoretically, the principle is to seek to interrupt the hiccup reflex arc. Here are some ways that are often carried out:

• carbon dioxide levels are higher in the blood can cripple hiccups. So breathe in a paper bag. Blow and breathe as much as 10 times with enough force to face flushed. Do it quickly, and keep a sealed paper bag so no air that goes into it ... so that inhaled air is a lot carbon dioxide.
• Another technique is to increase carbon dioxide levels by holding his breath as long as possible, then swallow when hiccup feels will come. Do as much as 2-3 times and then take a deep breath and start again.
• There is also a suggested holding his breath as long as possible and then remove it and hold it as long as possible. Or by holding his breath with his head tilted.
• Swallowing a teaspoon of dry sugar can stop the hiccups in a few minutes. Allegedly, the sugar in the mouth would send signals through the nerve fibers that would interfere hiccup reflex arc.
• Drinking water in the bow position, perform a light massage with her index finger on both sides of the neck, take a deep breath and drink 10 gulps of water while not breathing, bending to touch your fingers to your toes for 60 minutes and many more techniques that can be done to eliminate the hiccups.

If the hiccups do not disappear as well in a few hours or even days, then medical help such as drug use is needed. Some drugs that can be used to eliminate such hiccups are chlorpromazin, metoclopramid, baclofen, Anticonvulsants (phenytoin, valproat acid, carbamazepin) also other drugs such as quinidine, amitriptilin and marijuana. Certainly the use of these drugs should be with your doctor's instructions, because these drugs also have side effects that need to be wary of.

If the drugs also hiccups persist, could also try hypnosis therapy and acupuncture. Furthermore ... anesthesia with positive pressure ventilation and paralytic muscle has been reported to stop hiccups. Well, finally ... as the last weapon that can be done ... ... surgery to destroy or phrenic nerve block has also been done in some cases are not solved hiccups in various ways

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