Chronic hiccups
Lipsky, M.S.
American Family Physician 34(5): 173-177
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-838X PMID: 3022571 Document Number: 283505
Patients with chronic hiccups should be carefully examined for an underlying disorder while receiving symptomatic treatment. Treatment includes physical maneuvers, drugs such as chlorpromazine, metoclopramide, anticonvulsants or quinidine, and other, less tested modalities such as hypnosis. Only those patients with disabling hiccups that do not respond to conservative treatment should be considered for phrenic nerve surgery.