Mrs Behavin
Well-Known Member
The Ig Nobel Prizes for this year have just been awarded ...
The winner of the Ig Nobel prize in medicine was Francis Fesmire, of University Hospital in Florida, for a study that showed that intractable hiccups can be terminated by "digital rectal massage."
"Initially, gagging and tongue pulling maneuvers were attempted with no change in symptomatology, " Dr Fesmire wrote in a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
"Digital rectal massage was then attempted using a slow circumferential motion. The frequency of hiccups immediately began to slow, with a termination of all hiccups within 30 seconds," the valiant scientist found.
So, now you know ... and if you do get hiccups, don't ask me for help!
The winner of the Ig Nobel prize in medicine was Francis Fesmire, of University Hospital in Florida, for a study that showed that intractable hiccups can be terminated by "digital rectal massage."
"Initially, gagging and tongue pulling maneuvers were attempted with no change in symptomatology, " Dr Fesmire wrote in a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
"Digital rectal massage was then attempted using a slow circumferential motion. The frequency of hiccups immediately began to slow, with a termination of all hiccups within 30 seconds," the valiant scientist found.
So, now you know ... and if you do get hiccups, don't ask me for help!