A Florida teenager finally took a long breath after hiccuping non-stop for five weeks.
The hiccups stopped around 5pm on Wed. Feb. 28, the St. Petersburg Times wrote.
"Jennifer Mee had a few more spasms, but then she stopped and took her first ... breaths [without hiccups] since ... Jan. 23," the paper said.
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No one seems to know what cured the 15-year-old girl from the western Florida city of St. Petersburg, who had hiccupped almost non-stop for weeks.
Mee had seen several special doctors including an infectious disease doctor , a neurologist ( a doctor that looks at your brain), a hypnotist and an acupuncturist.
She took medicine and tried a special new device designed to stop hiccups, the paper said.
She was also on an American TV show after her hiccups finally stopped.
Early Thursday morning, Jennifer said she hiccuped just one more time.
"Right now, my nose is burning and my throat hurts." But she felt a lot better than she has in weeks, the St. Petersburg Times said. (AFP)
一名佛羅里達的青少女在連續打嗝五個星期之後,總算長長地鬆了口氣。
根據聖彼得堡時報所述,她打嗝的情況在二月二十八日星期三下午五點左右停止。
報導寫道︰「珍妮佛米打了幾下嗝,然後就停下來,自一月二十三日以來,第一次沒有打隔干擾的呼吸。」
沒人知道這名來自佛州西部聖彼得堡市的十五歲少女止嗝的原因,她已經連打了好幾個星期的嗝。
珍妮佛米看過幾個專科醫師,包括傳染病醫師、腦神經醫師(檢測腦部疾病)、催眠師和針炙師。
報導指出,她吃了藥並試過一種設計用來停止打嗝的新裝置。
在她終於停止打嗝後,還上過美國電視節目。
星期四清晨,珍妮佛說她只又打了一次嗝。
聖彼得堡時報轉述她發言︰「現在我的鼻子灼熱而且喉嚨痛」,不過她感覺比過去幾個星期好多了。
(法新社╱翻譯︰鄭湘儀)
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