Para la próxima vez que tengan hipo

Si les fallan todos los métodos caseros conocidos, a cada cual más ridículo (aguantar la respiración, estirar los brazos haciendo fuerza contra el marco de la puerta, beberse un vaso de agua al revés…), siempre pueden probar algo más novedoso y entretenido. Case report: Sexual intercourse as potential treatment for intractable hiccups:

A healthy 40-year-old man suffered from low back pain. Drug therapy, including several nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), did not alleviate the pain.

After a few weeks of suffering, the patient was treated by an alternative medicine practitioner, but to no avail. Four weeks after the pain began, the patient was treated by a neurologist who gave him an injection of a 5-mL mixture of 1% lidocaine, betamethasone sodium phosphate, and betamethasone acetate (6 mg/mL) to the most painful and tender area. The patient felt immediate relief from the back pain, but 6 hours later he developed intractable hiccups. He became ver y anxious and was unable to work or sleep. He tried to treat himself with metoclopramide and chlorpromazine as well as several folk remedies, but the hiccups continued.

He made several attempts at massaging his anterior soft palate with a cotton wool bud for 1 minute without success. On the fourth day of continuous hiccuping, the patient had sexual intercourse with his wife. The hiccups continued throughout the sexual interlude up until the moment of ejaculation when they suddenly and completely ceased and did not recur over a follow-up period of 12 months.

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A medical search using MeSH headings “hiccups,” “hiccoughs,” together with “sexual intercourse,” “ejaculation,” “orgasm,” or “sympathetic stimulation” was conducted. All references listed in articles on hiccups were also checked. No reports in the medical literature over the past 23 years show that sexual intercourse or ejaculation can terminate intractable hiccups.

Based on the experience reported in this case, ejaculation might lead to cessation of intractable hiccups. It is unclear whether orgasm in women leads to a similar resolution, an issue that could be investigated fur ther. Under circumstances in which sexual intercourse with a partner is not possible, masturbation might be tried as a means of stopping intractable hiccups.

Me lo envió lo Evan Balaban, responsable de localizar otros artículos delirantes que han aparecido por aquí, como respuesta tras hacerle llegar las técnicas de inseminación de cerdas en Dinamarca que aparecen en este vídeo. La ciencia es un sinparar.