Video at Source: Girl Hiccups Nearly Once Per Second
Posted on 02/19/2007 11:17:01 AM PST by Cagey
Thousands of people from all over the world have e-mailed or contacted a 15-year-old Florida girl about possible remedies for her extreme case of endless hiccups.
Speaking in a national television interview Monday, Jennifer Mee of St. Petersburg, Fla., said she was in science class on January 23 when she first began to hiccup uncontrollably .
Since Mee's story appeared on Local6.com and several other news sites, thousands of people have offered possible cures.
Local6.com received sympathetic e-mails and calls from viewers throughout the country.
The 15-year-old has had blood tests, a CT scan and an MRI since the fits started. Drugs haven't worked. Neither has holding her breath, putting sugar under her tongue, sipping pickle juice, breathing into a paper bag and drinking from the wrong side of a glass.
Mee, who has been hiccupping about 50 times a minute since January, said the rapid contractions hurt in her back and chest and she is in pain.
A report said the family has some ideas about possible causes and hopes for treatment.
Video at Source: Girl Hiccups Nearly Once Per Second
BOO!!
Pinching my nostrils and taking three swallows of water without stopping usually works for me.
I feel sorry for her. You would think that there is some kind of tranquilzer that would remedy this.
As for me, I always keep sugar in my office and at home for those rare occassions that I get the hiccups. A spoonful of sugar on the tongue and swallow without chewing always works for me.
I wonder if Dr. Death has suggested assisted suicide. It is a QUALITY of life issue.
There is thought that this is a neuropathy issue.
I think I've run across Thorazine as a good medication to control it or get rid of it. Not sure I got the name right, but think that was it.
I saw th einternview with the girl. She was nawing on gum like Violet from Willy Wonka.
\My surefire cure is a lemon wedge, sugar on one side and bitters on the other.
Blow out all your air and then bite down on the lemon. Swallow and then breath. Hiccups are gone.
I'll try that next time.
That, was funny.
She should hold one arm straight up in the air (while standing) and drink a 12 ounce glass of water as quickly as possible. Works everytime for me...
There are a lot of great sounding remedies on this thread. I feel like having some pineapple right now and don't even have hiccups.
The drink from the opposite side of the glass method has never failed me, so I've never tried anything else. But heck, I'll try some of the others here just for fun.
Here's a question, if I wanted to experiment, are there any could ways to induce hiccups? (Beside getting blotto on draft beer?)
Are you trying to cure hiccups or frighten folks to death?
I'm not too bright, but I've never understood how you drink from the opposite side of the glass. How do you do that? Which way do you tilt it? How wet do you get?
I just don't comprehend the physics of it; much less the curing of hiccups.
Can you enlighten me?
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