I have been hiccuping alot lately how do i get rid of them?
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by the time you get an answer they will be gone...\n\n>wink<
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Well, easy. Just tickle the person having hiccups for a couple of second. Let him or her laugh out for a while. They will breathe normally afterwards. It works because it loosen up something which I can't remember what in your breathing passage way. A loud laugh will makes it better.\n\nHolding breath does helps but occasionally since some hiccups are too extreme that it is hard for a person to hold his or her breath for even a second or two.\n\nEven drinking water too. Seldom helps. Bottomline, try out these guidelines especially the tickling part.\n\nCheerios.
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I agree that spasms in the diaphragm are to blame but I have found an unbeatable cure (at least for me)...Peanut Butter! As soon as it touches my tongue the hiccoughs are gone!
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i have never heard of hiccups destroying brain cells. hiccups are actually caused when your diaphragm spasms.
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Try holding your breath, spoonful of peanut butter, glass of water through a paper towel, brushing your teeth.Ever notice how you can go days, weeks or months without the hiccups. Then one day you get them on and off ALL day!!!! SO annoying!!!Good luck!!!
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Place a tablespoon of sugar in mouth and suck slowly. In most cases, it is a sure remedy. For the authors of this web site, it works in more than 90% times.\nBlock both ears aand drink 6 ounces water without stopping to breathe. It works in more than 90% times\nHold your breath as long as possible, and let it go out. The lungs expand and push down on the diaphragm, stopping hiccups immediately.\nTake a deep breathe through your mouth, lean forward and push down your stomach. Hold in that position as long as you can and then slowly exhale the air through your mouth.\nMix 2 tsp common salt in a cup of plain yogurt (curd, yoghurt) and eat. In most cases, it is a good remedy.\nBoil 1/2 tsp of cardamom fresh powder in 2 cup water till about 1 cup water remains, Sieve it and drink a glassful of this warm water.\nFor recurring hiccups, suck small pieces of fresh ginger.\nPlug your ears with your fingers and drink something with a straw.\nLay on your back.\nPut a paper bag over your mouth and nose and breathe several times.\nFor some eating a spoonful of peanut butter stops hiccups immediately. It can work for children also.\nPull your tongue out of your mouth as far as you can and hold it for a couple of seconds.\nPlug your ears and nose and drink water.\nSing or laugh as loud as you can.\nTickle your uvula (the piece of skin that hangs down deep inside in your mouth) with a wrapped straw.\nEnage yourself in talking with somebody and do not care about hiccups. The hiccups will stop in five minutes.
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hiccups are caused when your body breathes and swallows at the same time causing  spasms (hiccups)
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(m)\n\nHiccups Causes\n\nMany conditions are associated with hiccups, but none has been shown to be the cause of hiccups. \n\nIf you eat too fast, you can swallow air along with your food and end up with a case of the hiccups.\nAny other practices that might irritate the diaphragm such as eating too much (especially fatty foods) or drinking too much (drunk people hiccup) can make you prone to having hiccups.\nIn these instances, your stomach, which sits on top of the diaphragm, is distended or stretched. Because they occur in relation to eating and drinking, hiccups are sometimes thought to be a reflex to protect you from choking.
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i think its tied to your emotions. I used to get hiccups every day at the same time. I dont know what that was about.
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Join the Club;\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Ais_0_mi7bIuM8xOSMy8RRYezKIX?p=rid+hiccups
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Fill a glass with water and, bending over it, drink from the opposite side that you would normally drink from.  This contracts your muscles which are causing the hiccups and it never fails for me.....
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I can tell you that a hiccup is caused by a spasm in the diaphragm (a muscle that separates your chest region from your abdominal region). As the diaphragm is thrown into spasm the hiccup occurs.\nHope this answers your question!
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My mother told me to drink water but i prefer holding breath. Hiccup appeared because of lack of oxygen, i think, so holding ur breath will be good. Hold for 10 seconds and do it for3 to 5 times and it will be cured!!!
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There are 2 ways I've found to be most effective, first is drink a glass of water and hold your breath while you do it and keep holding it as long after you swallow the water as you can, second when you start hiccuping think about your next hiccup, keep thinking about it as hard as you can and it usually stops, it sounds crazy but it's a psychological thing and it really works.
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Hiccups are caused from air bubbles.  The best thing to do is to get a teaspoon of peanut butter and put the whole thing in your mouth and work on it and swallow.  Everytime my daughter gets them, that's what I use and as soon as she swallows the first bit, they're gone.
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Drop the phone book on her head when she's not looking. \n\n\nI've also heard that you can cure hiccups by tickling. So tickle her until she slaps you, then slap her back twice as hard.
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Hiccups are sudden, involuntary contractions of the diaphragm muscle. As the muscle contracts repeatedly, the opening between your vocal cords snaps shut to check the inflow of air and makes the hiccup sound. Irritation of the nerves that extend from the neck to the chest can cause hiccups.\n\nAlthough associated with a variety of ailments (some can be serious such as pneumonia or when harmful substances build up in the blood for example from kidney failure), hiccups are not serious and have no clear reason for occurring.