After the girl left, Yang Jie asked curiously.
"Dr. Chen, this... this looks a lot like hiccupping!"
Chen Cang nodded, indeed the two seemed quite similar.
However, hiccupping is just an intermittent physiological response, not even enough to be considered a pathological reaction.
But diaphragmatic flutter is a more complex condition that can even... induce certain adverse cardiac diseases.
When the diaphragm is diseased, diaphragmatic flutter increases the negative pressure inside the chest rapidly, causing air to surge into the upper respiratory tract, passing through the partially closed vocal cords, and producing a distinctive sound.
At the onset of an attack, things are still fairly manageable and no other serious symptoms are present, but as time goes on, the problems begin to multiply!
Just as Yang Jie had said, sometimes, the fear is that a misdiagnosis has been made, and the disease has been allowed to drag on.