{"id":9065,"date":"2025-03-26T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:35:15","slug":"mans-two-year-hiccups-triggered-by-rare-allergy-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/26\/mans-two-year-hiccups-triggered-by-rare-allergy-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u2019s Two-Year Hiccups Triggered by Rare Allergy Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/mans-two-year-hiccups-triggered-by-rare-allergy-condition-2000577361\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talk about a bad hiccup attack. In a recent case report, doctors describe an elderly man who endured years of incurable hiccups ultimately caused by an allergic condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors in Lebanon detailed the strange medical tale in a paper&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s13256-025-05044-1\">published<\/a>&nbsp;this month in the Journal of Medical Case Reports. The man\u2019s hiccups got so bad that he eventually had to be hospitalized, at which point doctors discovered an unusual manifestation of a well-known but relatively rare type of allergy. Thankfully, once the cause was discovered, the man received proper treatment and his hiccups finally stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/hiccups\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20352613\">Hiccups<\/a>&nbsp;are involuntary contractions of the diaphragm, a thin muscle at the base of the chest that primarily helps us breathe. Usually, they\u2019re short-lasting bouts of misery caused by any number of mundane things, such as eating too fast, drinking lots of carbonated beverages, or even getting excited. Rarely, though, hiccups can be a sign of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-mans-chronic-hiccups-turned-out-to-be-a-brain-tumor-s-1848672097\">more serious health problem<\/a>, especially if they don\u2019t go away after a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/mans-two-year-hiccups-triggered-by-rare-allergy-condition-2000577361\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo Talk about a bad hiccup attack. In a recent case report, doctors describe an elderly man who endured years of incurable hiccups ultimately caused by an allergic condition. Doctors in Lebanon detailed the strange medical tale in a paper&nbsp;published&nbsp;this month in the Journal of Medical Case Reports. The man\u2019s hiccups got so bad that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-13.33.27.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9067,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions\/9067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}