What is it about?
We found out the specific conditions to make hiccups stop. Please see the commentary from Dr.GA Petroianu; “Abolishing the venous‐arterial CO2 gradient as treatment for singultus: Commentary on Obuchi et al, 2018.”
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Why is it important?
There were no reports to reveal definitive conditions to stop hiccups. If you are able to create the above conditions, hiccups even persistent ones stop because of suppression of medullary functions. Both PaCO2 and PvCO2 are about 50mmHg, when hiccups stop.
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This page is a summary of: CO2
retention: The key to stopping hiccups, The Clinical Respiratory Journal, August 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/crj.12910.
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