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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.