Hiccups, or hiccups. Hiccups can be stopped by physical therapy, medication, and phrenic nerve block.
1. Physical therapy:
(1) blowing method: cover the mouth and nose with a paper bag and breathe repeatedly inside the paper bag.
(2) water holding method: drink a large mouthful of cool boiled water and contain it, hold your breath to stop breathing, wait until it is unbearable and then swallow the water into the stomach.
(3) Pressing the double eyeball method: the patient’s eyes closed, the thumbs of both hands on the bilateral eyeballs, according to the same direction (clockwise or counterclockwise) moderate pressure on the upper part of the eyeballs until the hiccups stop.
(4) Tongue pulling method: the patient takes the supine or semi-recumbent position, opens the mouth and stretches the tongue, asks one person to carry on the auxiliary, the auxiliary can use the gauze to wrap the front of the patient’s tongue, and gently pulls outward with the strength that the patient can bear, each time exerts the pulling force lasts for 30 seconds, and then lets go of the hand to make the tongue reset, and so on and so forth until the stopping of hiccups.
2. Drug therapy: commonly used sedatives such as chlorpromazine, haloperidol, muscle relaxants such as baclofen tablets, eperisone hydrochloride tablets, anticonvulsants such as carbamazepine, phenytoin sodium and so on.
3. phrenic nerve block: can be used for drug treatment ineffective hiccups, refers to the injection of local anesthetic around the phrenic nerve, so that its innervated area produces anesthesia, blocking the conduction of nerve impulses, which in turn prevents hiccups from occurring.
There are many other ways to stop hiccups, such as cervical paracentesis closure therapy. All of the above drugs should be used under the guidance of a doctor, and self-medication is prohibited.