Simple Ways to Overcome Hiccups According to Doctors

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Hiccup not always dangerous, but it can be very annoying. Hiccups occur when your diaphragm, the muscle that separates your lungs and stomach, suddenly contracts, says Melvin Look, a doctor and consultant surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital.

This contraction draws air into the lungs and if this occurs suddenly when your voice box contracts, a sound that sounds like “hic” occurs.

According to Look, as reported by Channel News Asia, Monday, November 16, 2020, the cause of the diaphragm to experience this is not yet clear.

Prolonged hiccups can be very annoying because they affect your speech. This condition can last a few minutes and go away on its own but if it lasts more than two days or continues to recur for 48 hours, then consult a doctor immediately.

“Because prolonged hiccups can indicate structural disorders, infection or inflammation that affects the central nervous system or nerve certain or its branch, “said gastroenterologist at Gleneagles Hospital, Dr. Amitabh Monga.

According to him, these disorders may include diseases of the stomach, liver, pancreas or brain.

Then, how to deal with hiccups? Look says the simplest treatments for hiccups involve several common mechanisms such as holding back breath briefly or breathe in while leaning forward with your knees drawn to your chest.

Other than that, gargle seems to stimulate your throat, which is another way of interfering with the involuntary action of your diaphragm.

According to Monga, the efficacy of this method has not been confirmed. Even so, this method is easy to do and has a low risk of complications, so it doesn’t hurt to try.

If there is no underlying medical cause, the doctor may prescribe medication to stop it.

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