Nebraska’s Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 68 years — setting a Guinness World Record for the longest attack in history.
Meanwhile, attacks persisting for over a month are deemed intractable the super rare variety suffered by Osborne which affects only 1 in 100,000 people.
Ali Seifi, a Texas neurosurgeon who invented a device that instantly relieves hiccups, posited that the old-timer could’ve sustained a minor injury during the fall, which damaged his breathing muscles, thereby causing the incessant glottal episodes.Causes of long-term hiccups range from diabetes to cancer and even alcoholism, per the Smithsonian.In 1978, after a 56-year hiccup attack, Osborne told the Associated Press that he’d “give everything I got in the world if I could get rid of them.
One well-intentioned pal even tried to frighten the hiccups away by discharging a shotgun behind his head, which Osborne said startled him but didn’t “scare the hiccups out of me.” This suppression technique allowed Osborne to keep a lid on the hiccups to the point that he wouldn’t experience them in the night.
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