Life full of hiccups for Florida teen

A 15-YEAR-OLD US girl who hiccuped her way through part of January and all of February is hiccuping once again.

Jennifer Mee, who hiccuped close to 50 times each minute for more than five weeks from January 23, began hiccuping again after a nose bleed, said her mother, Rachel Robidoux, in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The longest recorded attack of hiccups lasted a full 68 years. Charles Osborne (1894–1991) of the US began hiccuping in 1922, and was unable to stop until February 1990.

He hiccuped up to 40 times a minute during the first few decades, and slowed down to 20 hiccups a minute in later years.

He led a normal life, married twice, and fathered eight children. It’s estimated that he hiccuped about 430 million times during his life.