Help raise awareness of Chronic Hiccups.

Help raise awareness of Chronic Hiccups. Not many people know that hiccups can happen chronically but they can please help spread awareness of this.

I'm sure everyone has had the hiccups at least once, however there are people that live with these day in and day out there is no cure but can be calmed by medication. Chronic hiccups are hiccups that persist for a long period of time or recur frequently over an extended period of time.] A hiccup is an unintentional movement (spasm) of the diaphragm, the muscle at the base of the lungs. The spasm is followed by the rapid closure of the vocal cords, which produces a distinctive sound. Hiccups often start for no apparent reason and usually disappear after a few minutes. Hiccups that last for more than two days and less than a month are sometimes called persistent or protracted hiccups. On rare occasions, hiccups persist even longer than a month or recur frequently over an extended period of time, and are called intractable hiccups. Intractable hiccups are difficult to treat and often indicate the presence of another medical problem. The longest recorded episode of intractable hiccups lasted 60 years

Irrtractiable hiccups. So rare we don't have a ribbon.
10/20/2017

Irrtractiable hiccups. So rare we don't have a ribbon.

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