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Hiccup spell stops after 65 days

OMAHA (UPI) -- An Omaha, Neb., woman said her 11-year-old daughter's chronic hiccups stopped abruptly after 65 days.

Dawn Swanger said doctors told her there was nothing physically wrong with her daughter, Ericka, and the family tried all manner of home remedies for the condition, including drinking water through a towel while upside-down and using a drinking device called a "Hic-cup," KETV, Omaha, Neb., reported Thursday.

"It started April 1," Ericka said. "We were in English class at school, and it was no big deal. Then, a couple weeks later, we started getting worried. They hurt, but not that much anymore. I got used to the pain."

Dawn Swanger said her daughter's hiccups stopped mysteriously on the day she was to have visited hypnotist Jeanette Laitner, who hypothesized the condition was being caused by the girl's subconscious.

"It might have started out physically, but it ends up being subconscious," Laitner said.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 06/20/2008

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