They are more likely to occur in children who have long periods of breath-holding.

Breath-holding spells usually occur when a young child is angry, frustrated, in pain, or afraid.

Breath-holding spells usually are diagnosed by a report of the symptoms observed during a spell.

"There will be a lot of breath-holding until then," Mr. Havemann said.

He said most wrongly diagnosed children were only suffering fainting attacks caused by breath-holding and tantrums.

Pulmonary (lung) pressure damage in scuba divers is usually caused by breath-holding on ascent.

Gautama underwent prolonged fasting, breath-holding, and exposure to pain.

Apnoea, for more about breath-holding.

"There was a lot of breath-holding," said one juror, Bill Smith, "because no one had a clue how anyone else was feeling."

Two-year-olds thrive on attention and they'll get it any way they can - crying for no reason, breath-holding, tantrums and general naughtiness.

Breath-holding while ascending from scuba diving may also force lung air into pulmonary arteries or veins in a similar manner, due to the pressure difference.

They don't appear. . . . The mother hears the nurse coming but the breath-holding has stopped; she slaps the child hard on the leg.

He became passionate about underwater breath-holding, hunting and images, and became the French Navy's swimming champion.

The duration of breath-holding during swimming or diving is greatly prolonged by first hyperventilating to blow off the carbon dioxide, thus reducing the urge to breathe.

Eyelash reflex disappear but other reflexes remain intact and coughing, vomiting and struggling may occur; respiration can be irregular with breath-holding.

After a lot of mask-fogging, breath-holding, and over-enthusiastic splashing, I began to master the techniques which allowed me to explore the crystal clear waters of this underwater world.

Underwater diving is the practice of going underwater, either with breathing apparatus (scuba diving and surface supplied diving) or by breath-holding (freediving).

The ancient technique of free-diving requires breath-holding, and world-class free-divers can hold their breath underwater up to depths of 214 metres and for more than four minutes.

Then, at a certain moment, at which time there was a great deal of breath-holding, Archie, inside the machine, raised one hand to signify he was about to make his move.

Cries of encouragement were obviously out of the question, as to hear anything of the race required a great deal of breath-holding and ear-straining, but the patrons went about this with a will.

Then there is the breath-holding, for which Mr. Blaine trained with a team of divers led by Kirk Krack of Performance Free Diving International, a diving school.

The magician and fancy-stunt-deviser has broken the world record for breath-holding by not breathing for seventeen minutes and four seconds while submerged in a water tank on the set of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

Croft is credited with inventing "air packing" (also known as "lung packing" or "glossopharyngeal inhalation"), a method used to overfill the lungs, increasing the volume of air in the lungs above the total lung capacity prior to breath-holding.

Excessive vomiting during the first few weeks of life Extremely forceful vomiting Chronic cough Wheezing No breathing or breath-holding spells Slow growth Excessive crying as if in pain Weight loss There may be a history of episodes of aspiration pneumonia.

To clarify: Blaine broke the world record for breath-holding anywhere-besting the sixteen minutes and change achieved by a Swiss daredevil named Peter Colat-not the world record for breath-holding on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."