If there are no underlying causes for the hiccups, the most important thing to do is to help the person to avoid any triggers such as overeating or drinking alcohol.
There are some practical things you can try to stop an episode of hiccups. Different techniques might work for different people. You can encourage someone to try any of the following:.
They can help assess and treat any reversible causes. If no cause is found, they may be prescribed peppermint water or proton pump inhibitors PPIs such as omeprazole. Peppermint water should not be used if the person is taking dopamine antagonists as they work in opposite ways.
The symptoms are:. Reflux stomach acid going backwards into the oesophagus can occur as part of dyspepsia or might be a symptom on its own. Dyspepsia can affect anyone at any age.
People with a terminal illness may be more likely to have dyspepsia. Dyspepsia might not have any obvious cause. This is called primary or functional dyspepsia.
Secondary dyspepsia is when the symptoms occur as a result of an underlying condition, including:. If you suspect someone has dyspepsia, speak to their GP or specialist nurse who can arrange further assessment to look for underlying causes and prescribe treatment. They might prescribe proton pump inhibitors PPIs such as omeprazole or H2 antagonists such as ranitidine if someone has pain or heartburn. Prokinetics such as metoclopramide help the stomach to work faster so can be helpful with symptoms of bloating and feeling full.
If there are no underlying causes functional dyspepsia , the person might not need any treatment. There are things you can suggest to help them manage their symptoms. They could:. Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines: Hiccups. Email your feedback to knowledgezone mariecurie. We'll use the results of this survey to understand how our information helps people and how we can improve it. See our full privacy policy. We may also use your comments anonymously for marketing purposes. We won't be able to respond to your comments.
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Published date: 18 July Review date: 11 January It's just one giant screech followed by a burp. The only thing I have tried is baclofen muscle relaxer which did not help. I've had a endoscopy and a ct scan and I was told I had gastritus.
Helpful - 0. I am having the problem as we speak, and it's around in the morning. Here is the small description of my health history: - Ages - experienced a lot of pain on my gallbladder after eating fatty foods.
I quickly learned that coke would help if taken during the meal, strange since coke is very acidic. The pains stopped at the age of seventeen, eventhough my parents never took me to the Dr for it.
I did nothing to stop it; it stopped all by itself. Also very important to note, after 17 I noticed I couldn't take any more milk because I would give me too much gas. So I stopped drinking it all together and joined the lactose intolerance community.
The Dr discovered I had h-pylori and put me on antibiotics. As mentioned earlier I never quite finished with the treatment. I looked at my stomach and I was bloatted. I couldn't get rid of the hiccups for 3 days, so I went to the Dr, and he said that it was simply because I ate too much fatty or spicy foods right before going to bed.
He asked me to take one tablet of Zantac before bed along with 4 teaspons of milanta. Two days into the treatment my problem got better and then finally my hiccups went away.
Hiccups as he explained to me, are caused by irratability of the diaphragm, which makes it spasm. This treatment calmed the irritability. After the consultation I went back for a followup, and with all fear I put everything on the table. I told him about my gallbladder issues when I was a child. I asked him to allow me to take an exam to see if my gallbladder was okay. He did and ultrasound and found polyps and sludge.
Then I took another exam, which I can't remember the name of the procedure, but they basically put a die intravenously which measured how much gallbladder contracted. The Dr and surgeons have mentioned to me that I need to remove my gallbladder sometime this year. I still haven't done it, but I will be doing that pretty soon. Foods that worsened my problem: - Drinking 2 cups of coffee everyday of the week.
Staying away from this foods, specially coffee has made me feel better all together. Because it was the fourth of July weekend I felt compelled to test my system with wine and italian foods, and now I am reaping the consecuences of my silly actions.
I will take my gallbladder out sometime soon, hopefully this will help the problem. Best of luck to you. I am going to bed now since the hick up has stopped. They randomly come, nothing leads them on and nothing gets rid of them.
Although a few males find it "cute", I find it rather annoying. I'm 20 years old, no health complications that I'm aware of I'm not sure what in the world these things are, though!
Today they have been worse than any other day which is why I'm looking up information to try to find a cure or cause.
I too have that annoying hiccup, following by a burp which relieves the feeling of pressure in my upper abdomen. I have changed my entire diet by eliminating chocolate, coffee, red meat, wheat and dairy. My dr. The next step will probably be an upper GI series or endoscopy if this doesn't improve within the next couple of weeks. I have already had an H Pylori blood test to rule out an ulcer, an ultrasound and an MRI which were unremarkable. I am getting very tired of this! It's so comforting to know that there are other people out there with my problem too!
I also have uncontrollable hiccups and burps. Ratio of about for burps and hiccups. It is getting very frustrating. I have very bad acid reflux and simply by laying down flat at night the acid has gone into my voice-box and has damaged my voice. My "donkey brays" as I call them, are extremely loud, loud enough for the whole class to turn around, since I am only I've had a few outbursts of hiccups that barely allow me to speak reasonably.
And I am a singer, so it concerns me, because it can happen when I sing. I've had it for maybe a year and a half! Cheers to those who have had it for 5 years, if it were me I'd have died by then haha.
The most in a day for me is 44, but I was on 20MG of Omerprazole that brought it down a bit to about 25 a day. They can be painful. I have a lot of excess gas, and my stomach is so loud that people around me turn around, and I can feel it all the way up my esophagus. And the bad days if I don't take medication, I can feel the acid hurting my stomach. It's awful, because if I bray, it feels like it is bringing up hot steam into my throat.
I am going to the doctor tomorrow to be referred to a specialist, and am probably going to have a endoscopy. I'm getting so tired of it! Fruits with a lot of acid such as strawberries give me massive hiccups, but it happens constantly. But so far, no night-time hiccups. I'm only 16!
I shouldn't have to deal with this! Get a foam wedge pillow, if you want you can put your regular pillows on top of it. Gastroesophageal reflux disease. I too have this problem.
After having the baby, they didn't go away. I have been doing them ever since on a regular basis. I too, thought it was only me. To me, it feels like a burp coming- I feel the slight pressure of this pre-burp and then it seems to suddenly attack me, come out of nowhere and a burp or hiccup sort of explodes from my mouth. My husband ever so sweetly and lovingly named them "bi-gawks! I've never really counted.
I CAN stifle the sound if in public, but I have to really be aware of it and try hard. At home, they just slip out and my husband and children will repeat the sound from different rooms in the house to tease and "echo" me with humor.
Funny, yeah right. I wish I didn't do it, but yet after a "bi-gawk" escapes me, I feel so much better. They are very abrupt, very loud and very quick- not to mention, very powerful. I had a colonoscopy last year and an upper GI and they said everything looked good.
I stopped the nexium and seemed fine. But I still "bi-gawk. As far as I know, I have had a re-occurance of H pylori at least 3 times and done the antibiotics.
Now it's been 6 years and I DO NOW have bouts with heartburn and pop the occasional zantac and go on Prevacid on and off depending on the severity of the bi-gawks. Prevacid seems to help.
Feel like I have the flu. Weak, lightheaded, shaky, pale, stomach is gurgly and upset, painful cramps, I feel queasy, I have a headache and I'm not talking a hang-over either My bowels will be all upset and I either have very loose stools yellow-ish in color or I have tar-ish dark almost greenish black stools or I can't go at all and won't for a few days afterwards.
If that happens, I get bloated, stomach seems to extend and I have painful cramps. I was convinced I had some kind of stomach tumor the way I bi-gawked, kind of kidding, kind of not I believe the bi-gawking is due to GERD or something gastritis involved, and suspect the lower intestines, painful cramping issue is due to IBS and my body not wanting alcohol at ALL anymore. I was a binge drinker when I was younger, but now just occasionally drink.
Think I will stop altogether. But the bi-gawking is another issue and one I guess I will just have to live with. Maybe it DOES have something to do with the diaphragm. So possibly it is something to do with a faulty diaphragm and with age, stress, alcohol and gastritis- it all comes together with a mighty "BI-GAWK!
Okay, I have admitted WAY too much info about myself here and will be going now. I am so relieved I am not the only one that does this. I have been having these things for about 3 years now. I never know when I am going to do it until I do it and it is so embarrassing.
Other options include: Proton pump inhibitors PPIs , which can reduce stomach acid. PPIs may be recommended if you experience heartburn along with indigestion. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search.
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