Well when I get them Johnny I do the tiny sips of water while holding my breath massivly hard and it works everytime. I guess maybe it's different for everyone? Although the scaring thing always sounded silly to me, but who knows, maybe it makes you inhale air into your mouth very quickly and that works?
I myself, before reading about this, always thought the hiccups were caused by having an air bubble in your chest somewhere. I mean, you can get them by eating too fast, and eating too fast results in you swallowing air along with the food. Hiccups is also associated sometimes with drinking. People chugging beer or alcoholic drinks would also be swallowing air along with the drink. I dunno, I figured the holding the breath thing worked cause air naturally wants to rise, but if you can't burp then the air bubble can't get out, so you get hiccups. Holding the breath makes the air bubble float away elsewhere and then the hiccups go away. LOL that's always been my take on it. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
But obviously I'm wrong. If I wasn't doctors could cure a person with constant hiccups by some drug or method or whatever, something that would get rid of air in the body. So if it is a diaphram thing as Bungleau mentioned, what is it that triggers the un-sync? Again swallowing air has to be involved, and if so, how can you fix it other than to deal with the air bubble?
I myself would have her jogging, or on a trampoline! to see if that might help. Or physical excercising with a lot of stretching. I'd also make sure when she tried the holding her breath deal, she held it very hard, i.e., keep "breathing in" even though there is no air coming in anymore, keep the pressure and keep trying to breath in nothing. It kinda hurts and feels like your lungs each are closed and stuck together LOL, but after 20 seconds you are good to go, no more hiccups.
Johnny it says in the article her hiccups go away when she is asleep. But she's also on Valium and Benedryl, so those may be factors. She's way too young to be taking those types of drugs on a daily basis, she's gonna get addicted to them. Seriously this sort of thing pisses me off because it is so ridiculously horrible.
