Help!! How to stop hiccups?
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spoonful of vinegar is far easier and less messy and it works
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(m)\n\nHiccups usually go away all on their own. There might be as many "cures" for hiccups as there are families. Some popular home remedies include: \n\nTake a deep breath and hold it as long as you can. Repeat several times. \n\n\nTry rhythmic breathing or deep breathing. \n\nBreathe into a paper bag. \n\nHold your breath just as you think a hiccup will occur. \n\nGargle. \n\nTense your throat muscles and/or stomach muscles as you feel a hiccup coming on. \n\nPress hard against the cartilage behind your ear. \n\nPlug your ears while swallowing. \n\nDrink through a cloth or paper towel. \n\nBend over and drink from the opposite side of the glass. \n\nSwallow dry bread, peanut butter, or similarly sticky substance. \n\nSwallow a teaspoon of sugar. \n\nDissolve a teaspoon of sugar on your tongue. \n\nEat a lemon sprinkled with sugar. \n\nHave someone scare you. \n\nGive someone else a drink of water. \n\nIf you're still hiccupping after two days, contact your health care provider. Chronic hiccups can cause weight loss, insomnia, malnutrition, vomiting, and more. If you're bothered by long-lasting hiccups - and they aren't caused by a serious health problem - your physician can try chlorpromazine to stop them. It doesn't work every time, though. \n\nThe New England Journal of Medicine reported that a pain medicine routinely used in Europe relieved debilitating hiccups within a minute of receiving it, even when chlorpromazine didn't work. The US Food and Drug Administration hasn't approved the drug - which is typically used to prevent shivering.
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The way that works 100% of the time for me is:\nTake in all the air you can into your lungs and hold it while taking a small glass of water and drinking it with the smallest gulps you can. Do this until you can't hold your breath any longer. Works first try for me. The constant swallowing action distracts your esophagus and diaphragm long enough to make it forget about the hiccups.
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Either drink water with your top of your head facing the floor, get someone to scare you, hold your breath, or a foolproof method is to continuosly try to tell when your next hiccup is coming on. As soon as you feel it coming on your hiccups will be gone. It has never failed me once.\n\nIf nothing works go here: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/waldo.php and try to find waldo. As soon as you do your hiccups will be gone :) \n\nRyan
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For a headache take anadin extra.For hiccups drink water from the opposite side of the glass,sounds weird but it really works..
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What Causes the Hiccups?\nHiccups are usually a reaction to your stomach and digestive system getting wonky. This happens when you eat too much, drink bubbly drinks like soda or swallow too much air. Some people get the hiccups for no reason at all. Other things that cause hiccups include skull fracture, epilepsy, tuberculosis and believe it or not, constipation (not being able to poop). \n\nCommon Cures for the Hiccups\nUnlike sneezing, farting, burping, etc., hiccups don't serve any purpose. Hiccups are just annoying and pointless. How do you get rid of hiccups? Which remedy works best? Home remedies are usually based on the idea that you have to disrupt the hiccup cycle. Remedies include holding your breath, breathing into a bag, pulling your tongue, sudden fright, or - get this - eating sugar. Just drinking water, if done soon enough, might wash down a chunk of food in the throat that's pressing against a nerve.
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This is to expand on another person's answer, which was correct but missing some important steps or explanation.  This cure is a bonafide medical and scientific cure.  The get rid of hiccups, you must deprive oxygen from the muscle that is causing hiccups. No oxygen to that muscle, it can't burn energy, no energy, no hiccups.\n\nSo what needs to be done is to simulate DROWNING.  We must trick the body to think it is drowning.  This will cause it to divert oxygen from unimportant parts of the body, like that muscle causing hiccups, to more important parts like the heart, the brain, the organs, etc.  \n\nSo...take a glass of water, slowly exhale.  Pinch your nose.  Take about 5 or 6 sips of water (or more until you can't take it any longer) from the glass...making sure you are taking in WATER ONLY. Do NOT sip any air along with the water.  Stop.  \n\nHold your breath for a few seconds, and inhale slowly. The hiccups should disappear. If not repeat.  \n\nI have found this works 90% of the time.  It only fails to work if there really is something stuck in your throat that really needs to be expelled by hiccups or coughing, or drinking lots of water.
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Here's a few remedies I found on the net that you could try:\n\nPat baby on the back. If your baby has the hiccups, hold her upright\nagainst your shoulder and pat her back gently, suggests Dr. Garcia.\n''Some babies are prone to swallow a lot of air when they nurse or\ndrink formula,'' he says. ''And too much swallowed air distends the\nstomach, which can lead to hiccups. Some gentle pats may help bring up\nthe air and stop the hiccups.''\nCheck the nipple. ''A baby may swallow too much air and hiccup if the\nhole in the nipple of the formula bottle is the wrong size,'' says Dr.\nGarcia. How can you tell? '' When you turn the bottle upside down you\nshould get a drip, drip, drip of formula that gradually stops, rather\nthan a free flow or no dripping at all,'' says Dr. Garcia. He\nrecommends experimenting with different bottle and nipple types to see\nwhat works best for your baby.\nGo ahead and feed. Don't delay feeding your baby just because he has\nhiccups. ''Hiccups won't interfere with your baby's eating. And eating\njust might make the hiccups go away,'' says Michael J. Pettei, M.D.,\nPh.D., associate professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein School of\nMedicine of Yeshiva University in New York City, and co-chief of the\nDivision of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Schneider Children's\nHospital of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park,\nNew York.\n[...]\nBut don't overdo feeding either. During the first few months of life,\nif your baby always gets the hiccups after eating, overfeeding may be\nthe culprit. ''Try feeding your baby smaller portions, more\nfrequently,'' advises Robert Wyllie, M.D., head of the Section of\nPediatric Gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio.\n''If you suspect that you've been overfeeding your baby, try feeding\nhim on demand rather than on a schedule you've created, and never push\nhim to eat more than he wants,'' Dr. Wyllie adds."\n[...]\nhttp://www.mothernature.com/Library/bookshelf/Books/50/65.cfm\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n   \nBaby's Bliss GripeWater may also provide relief...\n"A traditional European remedy, gripe water contains safe, fast,\neffective, natural ingredients for relieving colic discomforts. Gripe\nwater has been used by mothers for over a century to relieve babies\nfrom the discomforts of colic, stomach cramps, hiccups, gas and\nteething.\n[...]\nIn an independent conducted Customer Satisfaction Survey, 85% of\nrespondents said they found Baby's Bliss GripeWater to be effective in\nrelieving symptoms associated with colic, gas, hiccups, excessive\ncrying, teething and minor stomach upset!"\nhttp://www.mommysthinkin.com/baby's_bliss_gripewater.htm\nBaby's Bliss website\nhttp://www.babys-bliss.com\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n   \nAnise seed is also said to work...\n"Anise seed (for infants) Pour a cupful of boiling water over a\nteaspoonful of anise seeds; steep; give the baby one or two\nteaspoonsful. It often cures immediately. Nursing the baby will\nfrequently stop the hiccups, too."\nhttp://www.health911.com/remedies/rem_hic.htm
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Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphram.  Hold your breath and while doing so, take your middle knuckle and hold it against your windpipe.  This keeps any air from getting through.  It has always worked for me.  It's probably the same principle as people telling you to try and drink water while you are holding your breath, however I think it's more effective than drinking water, because you aren't allowing any air to get in.
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Change your breathing patterns. Hiccups are basically hitches in your current breathing pattern. Try breathing in and out really fast for a minute or two.
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Hiccups are caused by:\n\n1. eating too fast resulting in swallowing a lot of air\n2. anything that irritates the diaphragm (too much alcohol, too much fatty food\n\nThere are several methods you can try to get rid of them:\n1. hold your breath\n2. drink a glass of water quickly\n3. pull hard on your tongue\n4. a spoon full of sugar placed on the back of your tongue and taken all at once (can be repeated)\n5. having someone scare you\n6. sniff smelling salts
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well hiccups happen when u swallow air and then u eat too \nfast. so its not bad but in some casesof the hiccups can last for days or weeks, but this is very unusual, and it's usually a sign of another medical problem.
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stick ur toungue out as far as u can and count to 10\nor\nget a dixie cup of water, hold ur ears, gulp the water down\nor\nsay fannadannajackedup 10 times\nor \nhold ur breath\nor \nput a spoonful of suger on the roof of ur mouth\nor look here (scroll down to hiccups)\nhttp://www.med-help.net/MedicalTips.html
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lady_oboe,\n\nThe best way to get rid of it is to drink water, continue gulping it until your hiccup is completely gone.\n\nOn the other hand, if you very unfortunateand you don't have water near by and this hiccups attacks you, the most efficient alternative way (believ me tis works!!) is to breathe deeply, hiccups will still come by counts of 2 or 3, so just continue breathing deeply, you will notice and feel it yourself its gone after your continous deep breathing.. \n\nMy advise try the 2nd way of getting rid of hiccups the next time you have it, and you will see the results..
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Punch yourself repeatedly in the stomach until you either black out from pain, or your arm gets tired. Either way will force your brain to focus on something else, and in the case of passing out, you get to sleep until your hiccups are gone. \nThey are quite unpleasant.
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Hiccups are caused by the diaphragm spasming.  Try holding your breath or forcing air down to help stop the spasm
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hiccups are caused by your diaphram (the muscle seperating your chest area and  your lower abdomen) spasming... Usually it spasms due to irregular breathing.  So no holding your breath really doesn't work if it does for some people it shouldn't and is probably in their head.  However breathing evenly and calmly should calm it down and make them stop.