Treatments to stop intractable hiccups can involve medications, non-medical therapies, or surgery. Self-help techniques, such as sipping ice water, holding your breath, ...

Dr. Bryan R. Payne, and Dr. Robert Tiel, neurosurgeons at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans have discovered a new approach to treating medically intractable hiccups.

Intractable hiccups can occur more often than we realize and present to ... "There is a lack of good quality evidence to recommend specific treatment for hiccups," Drs. Rouse and Wodziak wrote ...

Dr. Bryan R. Payne, and Dr. Robert Tiel, neurosurgeons at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans have discovered a new approach to treating medically intractable hiccups. They implanted a Vagus ...

Treatments for hiccups are difficult to study in clinical trials because of their short-lived nature. Nevertheless, in uncommon cases where hiccups don’t go away, interventions are required.

July 24, 2018 Intractable hiccups may be more common than we think ...

For some, intractable hiccups are a serious health problem. A bad case of the hiccups may require some serious medical treatment. Open mobile menu Psychology Today. Find Counselling ...

In the unlikely event that hiccups are “persistent” (lasting more than 48 hours) or “intractable” (more than a month), they may be the result of an underlying medical condition that should ...

Although he was able to have a normal life, some people with intractable hiccups (generally categorized as for more than a month or two) experience insomnia, drastic weight loss, and exhaustion.

TREATMENTS for hiccups are many, and they often require behavior regarded as unusual, undignified and amusing — including breathing into a paper bag, holding one’s breath, drinking water from ...