You Can Be Stuck With Hiccups For The Rest of Your Life

huh got a case of the hiccups brainiacs how annoying have you tried holding your breath or chugging down a glass of water yep hmm maybe tried biting a lemon or pulling hard on your tongue hey what do you know it's over consider yourself lucky because there are patients out there who walk out of their doctor's office diagnosed with chronic hiccups we know that hiccups are annoying but could a never-ending bout actually kill you but before we get into that let's unravel what actually causes the hiccups in the first place in short it's a sudden involuntary contraction of the diaphragm it occurs in a two-step process first the muscle spasm causes you to suck in a lot of air which leads to an immediate closure of your Airways as a response the vocal cords snap shut to produce the infamous hiccup noise hiccups are caused by a multitude of factors eating too much too quickly especially fatty or spicy foods drinking too much carbonated beverages even fear or excitement experts also warn sudden change in temperature strokes brain tumors even certain medications could cause hiccups luckily the hiccups are more often than not an inconvenience than a health hazard most remedies to rid yourself of hiccups have all been tried and tested by you at one point or another like holding your breath drinking water quickly or even a good scare some other unconventional solutions include squeezing your palm drinking ice water eating a spoonful of peanut butter or to place a pinch of sugar on your tongue for five to ten seconds hiccups most commonly lasts for less than 48 hours but in some rare and extreme cases they last for years even decades take Danielle Kirkland - woke up in 2008 with the hiccups only to have it last for eight years Kirkland was officially diagnosed with chronic hiccups and had to visit gastric ear nose throat and lung specialists before a cure was found and you hate it sitting in the waiting room for a few hours admittedly she also said that the hiccups became a major obstacle in her personal life as well as to her health Kirkland reports that she was kicked out of college because the hiccups were too disruptive in class to mention it made dating very interesting that's not exactly the most attractive tagline on your tinder bio Kirkland finally started to take a medication called tis a nadine which cured her chronic hiccups but hold the phone brainiacs if you thought eight years of hiccups was bad what about 68 years Charles Osborne is officially the Guinness Book of World Records holder for the longest bout of hiccups ever recorded doctor's report that Osbourne damaged a small but significant part of his brain that inhibits the hiccup response at the beginning of his chronic hiccups they occurred around 40 times per minute on average but then gradually slowed to 20% at that rate it's estimated that after 68 years Osbourne famously hiccuped four hundred and thirty million times in his lifetime but if you thought this detail would stain his personal reputation and love life Osbourne reportedly lived a pretty normal existence he married twice and father to eight children so there is hope for everyone I guess even you brainiacs you'll be happy to know that Osborne did not die from his chronic hiccups mysteriously the hiccups stopped the year before he died in 1990 from old age as for someone actually passing away from chronic hiccups Pope Pius the 12th is the individual who came closest to this bragging right he had a long period of hiccups associated with gastritis though he officially died of a stroke in other words although he departed the world hiccupping it wasn't the coroner's official cause of death according to experts chronic hiccups isn't too much of a serious problem in itself what can be problematic are the debilitating consequences coupled with chronic hiccups like fatigue weight loss depression and problems with heart rhythm so never having hiccups won't kill you if anything it is more likely that you'll die from embarrassment and a standstill in your personal life yikes chronic hiccups are not and may be the last part is already an issue for you so here are some fun facts about the diaphragm muscle you know so you can be the life of the party okay maybe not but we're sharing them with you in voice the medical term for hiccup is single tiss which is Latin for to catch one's breath while crow interestingly infants hiccup more than adults an idea suggests that hiccups were a way to prepare a fetus for breathing once it was born to exercise its muscles this is just a hypothesis especially since no one is actually sure why hiccups are even a thing on top of that fetuses have been reported - hiccup while still in utero men and women get hiccups equally as often but hiccup fits that lasts more than 48 hours are common in the men in the animal world kittens squirrels and otters can all hiccup in fact after this video you should really see a compilation video of cute becoming animals trust us you won't regret it so by now you probably know way more about hiccups then you signed up for well no one is certain why our body reacts the way it does one thing is clear the human body is a weird conglomerate of functions that somehow keeps us up and running every day don't forget to like this video and subscribe to our channel for more videos on the science of the human body see you later brainiacs [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 5min 42sec (342 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 07 2020