Patients with chronic hiccups should be carefully examined for an underlying disorder while receiving symptomatic treatment. Treatment includes physical maneuvers, drugs such as chlorpromazine, metoclopramide, anticonvulsants or quinidine, and other, less tested modalities such as hypnosis. Only those patients with disabling hiccups that do not respond to conservative treatment should be considered for phrenic nerve surgery.
慢性呃逆患者在接受对症治疗的同时，应仔细检查是否存在潜在疾病。治疗方法包括物理手法、药物（如氯丙嗪、甲氧氯普胺、抗惊厥药或奎尼丁）以及其他未经充分测试的方法（如催眠）。只有那些顽固性呃逆且对保守治疗无反应的患者才应考虑进行膈神经手术。
