Teen Hiccuping for Over 3 Weeks


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Jennifer Mee can't stop hiccuping. For more than three weeks now, the 15-year-old St. Petersburg teen has hiccuped close to 50 times a minute - despite the best efforts of doctors and home remedies.

She's had blood tests, a CT scan and an MRI. Drugs haven't worked. Neither has holding her breath, putting sugar under her tongue, sipping pickle juice, breathing into a paper bag and drinking out of the wrong side of a glass.

And, yes, people have tried to scare them out of her.

The hiccups do stop when she's sleeping.

According to the National Institutes of Health, hiccups are caused by involuntary contractions of the diaphragm, which causes vocal cords to briefly close, which makes that distinctive hiccup sound. They can start for no reason or be triggered by anything from spicy foods to stress.

It is not clear what triggered Jennifer's hiccups, which started in school Jan. 23. Her mother, Rachel Robidoux, recently turned to the local newspaper for help.

"I'm just looking for some answers where somebody's gone through this," Robidoux told the St. Petersburg Times. "At this point, we're willing to do anything."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070215/D8N9RMD00.html

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A mate fixed my hiccup spree on Tuesday, he didn't tell me what he was going to do but he put his arms around me from the back making a double fist on my chest near the botton of the ribs (where they join) and then squeezed very quickly. It was all over within a second..

..the hiccups stopped.

and no it wasn't a "man-love" moment ;)

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Jennifer Mee can't stop hiccuping. For more than three weeks now, the 15-year-old St. Petersburg teen has hiccuped close to 50 times a minute - despite the best efforts of doctors and home remedies.

She's had blood tests, a CT scan and an MRI. Drugs haven't worked. Neither has holding her breath, putting sugar under her tongue, sipping pickle juice, breathing into a paper bag and drinking out of the wrong side of a glass.

And, yes, people have tried to scare them out of her.

The hiccups do stop when she's sleeping.

According to the National Institutes of Health, hiccups are caused by involuntary contractions of the diaphragm, which causes vocal cords to briefly close, which makes that distinctive hiccup sound. They can start for no reason or be triggered by anything from spicy foods to stress.

It is not clear what triggered Jennifer's hiccups, which started in school Jan. 23. Her mother, Rachel Robidoux, recently turned to the local newspaper for help.

"I'm just looking for some answers where somebody's gone through this," Robidoux told the St. Petersburg Times. "At this point, we're willing to do anything."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070215/D8N9RMD00.html

How the hell do you drink out of the wrong side of a glass? :blink:

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too much rum i say ... arrrr maties .. *ich* ...

man, sux to be her, maybe some minty stuff or pfff i dono a vacation, maybe sea or clean mountain air, who knows

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How the hell do you drink out of the wrong side of a glass? :blink:

Put your mouth over the glass instead of under it, turning your head forwards looking to the ground. The drink falls onto the roof of your mouth.

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A mate fixed my hiccup spree on Tuesday, he didn't tell me what he was going to do but he put his arms around me from the back making a double fist on my chest near the botton of the ribs (where they join) and then squeezed very quickly. It was all over within a second..

heimlich maneuver?

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