Old hiccups can be caused by dietary factors, medications, or diseases such as reflux esophagitis and indigestion.
1. Dietary factors: eating too fast, often drinking too much carbonated beverages, alcoholism, etc. may cause hiccups.
2. Drug factors: the use of certain anesthetics, sedatives, such as midazolam and other drugs can affect the central nervous system, overdose can disrupt the body’s normal control of the ergogenic reflex, hiccups.
3. Disease factors: patients with reflux esophagitis can have heartburn, hiccups, epigastric pain and other symptoms; patients with dyspepsia can also have hiccups, which can be accompanied by postprandial fullness, early satiety and other manifestations. Craniocerebral trauma, brain tumors and other diseases may also cause old hiccups.
Patients with hiccups are advised to go to the hospital after eliminating non-disease factors and ask the doctor to make a judgment, and should not make a blind judgment on their own.