Why Do We Get Hiccups & How To Stop Them | RTC

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[laurainthesky]

As a mental health professional, I really appreciate you correcting inaccurate use of the term PTSD. PTSD is often be a debilitating chronic illness and hearing it used so casually hurts.

[beautifulleaves]

Love when a doctor can say I don’t know, makes me feel safer. I’ve had doctors not admit it and cause me to suffer more

[onionbubs]

As someone who did marching band for 4 years, it absolutely 100% is a sport, and an incredibly difficult one at that. You have to be an athlete and a musician at the same time.

[joseabril]

I like that he’s honest and will admit when he doesn’t really know the answer to a question, not just give out an unnaccurate piece of information just to answer a question.

[josiefike]

My son was born with 2 inguinal hernias, one on each side of his groin. He was super sick and threw up everything he ate for the first 3 months. Finally, we figured out what was wrong after so many tests! Swallow studies, ultrasounds, blood tests, different formulas, endoscopy ect! He was failure to thrive and so tiny because he couldn't keep anything down. He had surgery at 3 months old and instantly started gaining weight! No more throwing up! He is now 6 years old and has had no problems since!

[ZeUberCharge]

For the deal with losing a limb, here is my idea. Rigor mortis occurs because of intracellular Ca/K/Na concentrations getting spilled out because of cell death (and reaching the right tissues) which is why RM doesn't occur instantaneously. It also wears off when those ions are used or that nervous tissue itself breaks down (again, with time). It might just take a shorter time in limbs since they are not entire bodies (less tissue/ions to worry about)

[Priya-cvgx]

I am from India. My grandfather had uncontrollable hiccups for days and a person known to our family suggested that Guava leaves paste mixed with milk (I don’t remember cold milk or warm milk) and when we gave it to my grandfather the hiccups stopped instantly.

[lazarmladenovic]

FUN CASE for hiccups. Last year on 2nd of may I got hiccups after vomiting, hiccups lasted 5 days non-stop. After 2nd day I was vomiting due to irritation caused by hiccups, and 3rd day I was colapsing every time I vomited and was out for 2-15 seconds. On 5th day I was admitted to hospital where I had 30ish episodes of losing consciousness and they say that my heart stoped for 10-15sec ( keep in mind, I'm vomiting and colapsing right after or in middle of ). They did all kind of tests on me, and I was book case of a healthy 28 year old. I was in a hospital for 14 days and in the end they said it was vasovagal syncope and I got pacemaker. Now I got ptsd for hiccups. ( This is a really short version of what had happened ). P.S. Vet student here and I love your videos, keep up the good work!

[petersavieri]

As someone with diagnosed complex ptsd, I’m glad you clarified the difference between an isolated psychosomatic reaction to the memory of a banal experience, and the lifelong struggle against debilitating inhibition and avoidance, hyper vigilance, panic symptoms and even attraction to risk as a subconscious addiction, that are all part of the fun of real ptsd.

Also… the brand is spelt Vaporub 🤔

[sabrinadavis]

This is the first time I’ve heard a YouTuber talk about gastroparesis, and as someone with non diabetic gastroparesis it makes me super happy!

[charlenekatepinpin]

Whenever I have hiccups they're always so intense that they are so painful on the chest and jolts my entire upper body. It lasts for hours and it's so unbearable when you've exhausted most of the remedies you can think of until they go away on their own. Thanks Dr. Mike for explaining how they're happening. I've got a better understanding of what's going on when I have these pesky hiccups.

[zahraalhussein]

Idk why, but ever since the first time that I started watching Doctor Mike, I’ve always had this feeling that I could trust him, which is really something that I have rarely felt before, especially with social media influencers. I’ve been watching Dr. Mike for over a year now, and this feeling of trust has only increased more and more by the second. Thank you Doctor Mike for being one of the most genuine people that I’ve ever had the pleasure to come across.

[angstydoodles]

I comment this on a lot of videos, but if you don't like journaling or find it awkward or uncomfortable, it can help to sort of "remove yourself" from the scenario by writing a narrative/story where fictional characters experience the event(s) for you. Could be original characters or existing ones, whichever you prefer. I've always hated and struggled with journaling, and this has helped me a lot. By putting other characters into my shoes, it's easier to write about, and imagining how someone else would approach an issue I'm having really helps me to work through it and see it in a different light, especially if the character is one I really admire and look up to.

[cfg_designs]

For those wondering, rigor mortis, the muscle stiffness observed within deceased individuals between 4 and 8 hours after death, is caused by the depletion of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) within muscle fibers. because of this i think a traumatic injury leads to full loss of circulation and limb death, that limb would certainly experience this same rigor mortis. This is because ATP is required for the detachment of the muscle fiber components (myosin and actin) from one another and without it muscles will bind and become stiff regardless of the state of the rest of the body.

[waldo]

Fun bit about the cinnamon one. That very well might be the phenomena known as 'taste aversion'. It's likely something we developed very early on in evolution as a way to detect foods that could be poisonous. In terms of conditioning techniques, it's actually the fastest to take hold, often only needing one instance of it before you're fully conditioned. It's why people won't go back to a restaurant if they had one bad experience, will continuously say they don't like a certain food over decades, or have visceral reactions to medicines, just like in the case of the cinnamon medicine.

[sophiaisabelle]

Dr Mike never disappoints. His dedication and commitment is commendable.

[staceyparfait]

The holding your breath to get rid of hiccups really works! Sometimes you might have to do it 10 times in a row but it WILL get rid of them. It stabilizes the diaphragm. I've been doing it since I was about 9 years old 😊

[delaneyromaniello]

Hi Dr Mike I’m a vet student and I think it would be really cool if you did a video with a veterinarian about one health and/or public health. There’s a surprising amount of veterinarians in federal population med/epidemiology and I think it would be really cool.

[okamisama]

I once read about hiccups in dogs that they have this responce due to stress. I had a pup at that time, that for some reason started hiccuping. I immediately remember what I read and came down to his level to comfort him. The hiccuping stopped. After this incident I started to pay more attention to myself, when I started hiccuping. And while I may not notice it at first, I did experience stress at the time of hiccuping. The method I use is relaxing. It helps to sit down and lower my head. I then concentrate on my breathing and the feeling of actively relaxing my body. Kinda like meditation. It helps immediately. In some worse cases when the stress is piqed it may take a little more time, but it works.

Also about clogged nostrils. I think I've read somewhere that we always have one of the nostrils "clogged" (i.e. the air passes with bigger difficulty). And during the day the clogg changes sides (at one point the left nostril is clogged, then after some time - the right nostril). And the reason it is happening is that it helps to better smell smells. I do experience this kind of clogging of my nostils and I was wondering if there is some truth to this.

[researchotaku]

RE: the apple-cinnamon negative reaction. I learned about this type of phenomenon in my General Psychology class in college (circa 2004 so if science has disproved this, let me know). It's called "sauce béarnaise syndrome" - the psychologist who coined the term went out to dinner with his wife and had sauce béarnaise as part of his meal. He shortly after got sick and after that, sauce béarnaise made him feel ill. He theorized that sauce béarnaise syndrome is the body's way to protect you against eating poisonous substances because he didn't have the same reaction to his wife or restaurants in general, only to the sauce béarnaise.