Recently I am am excruciated with long attacks of a hiccup, especially at night...

[Lija]

Recently I am am excruciated with long attacks of a hiccup, especially at night, iz-for what I do not get enough sleep. Traditional stedstva do not help or assist. Tablets "Cerucalum" (the friend the doctor has advised) help or assist only. Prompt, please, why there are such attacks and how with them cardinally to struggle?

[The family doctor]

Allocate a hiccup of the "central" parentage (disease of a brain, neurosises), and also a hiccup arising owing to an immediate boring of a diaphragm or diagrafmalnogo of a nerve (disease of an esophagus, heart, organs of an abdominal cavity). Inspection is required from the therapist, vozmozhno-consultation of the neuropathologist, the psychiatrist. To treat it is necessary the reason of a hiccup, instead of a hiccup.