how do you cure the hic-ups?
353860
Water, soda(coke), sugar, scare, broom straw in your hair. When you drink water or soda, swallow hard.
66643
This may sound dumb, but it really works!  Eat a tablespoon full of sugar.  Try to swallow it all at once and you will not have another hiccup afterwards.  Works from experience.  I am a cocktail waitress at a bar and when all the drunks get them I make them take a shot of sugar.
354912
Suck in as much air as you possibly can - so much that it prevents the hiccup spasm occuring - and hold it as long as you can.  Simple, effective.
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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.
69813
Take a teaspoon of sugar or the sugar from one sugar packet and pour it on your tongue.  Let it disolve there.  By the time its disolved, your hiccups will be gone.  My kids used to get hiccups intentionally just so they could have the cure.  It works every time. \n\nAnother thing you could try is breathing slowly in and out of a small paper bag.  Thats the only thing that helps me.  Drinking never did help me with them.
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"Hic!" You've just hiccuped for what seems like the tenth time since you finished your big dinner. Wonder where these funny noises are coming from? The part to blame is your diaphragm (say: die-uh-fram). This is a dome-shaped muscle at the bottom of your chest, and all hiccups start here.\n\nThe diaphragm almost always works perfectly. It pulls down when you inhale to help pull air into the lungs, and it pushes up when you exhale to help push air out of the lungs. But sometimes the diaphragm becomes irritated, and when this happens, it pushes up in a jerky way that makes your breath come out differently from how it normally does. When this irregular breath hits your voice box, you're left with a big hiccup.\n\nSome things that irritate the diaphragm are eating too quickly or too much, an irritation in the stomach or the throat, or feeling nervous or excited. Almost all cases of the hiccups last only a few minutes. Some cases of the hiccups can last for days or weeks, but this is very unusual, and it's usually a sign of another medical problem.\n\nYou've probably heard lots of suggestions for how to get rid of hiccups, and maybe you've even tried a few. Holding your breath and counting to 10 is one way some people can get rid of their hiccups; other people say that drinking from the "wrong" side of a glass of water is the way to become hiccup-free. Putting sugar under your tongue might work, too. And maybe the most famous treatment - having someone jump out and scare you when you're not expecting it - helps some people wave good-bye to their hiccups.
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Join the Club;\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Ais_0_mi7bIuM8xOSMy8RRYezKIX?p=rid+hiccups
1153097
Lots of water. Cranberry juice will help too. Basically flush the system.
394595
Hiccups are caused by a spasm of the diaphram. To cure it, you need to "reset" the natural rhythm. The way to do this is :-\n\n(1) Pour a TALL glass of water.\n\n(2) Hold your breath...\n\n(3) IMPORTANT...PINCH YOUR NOSE CLOSED.\n\n(4) Slowly, take 10 - 20 swallows of the water...while holding your breath with your nose pinched closed.\n\n(5) When you can't stand it any more....you'll know by that overwhelming drowning sensation -- after a gasp, take a deep breath and relax.
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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..
1095438
Try Tea with some Honey & Lemon juice in it, or just honey on a spoon for a quick fix
377705
Drink a spoonful of lemon juice.\nthe sour taste shocks your nerves and stops hiccups.
259380
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.
432330
Hold your breath and drink a big glass of water. Keep doing it until they're gone. Works for me every time.
192979
warm water lemon juice and salt stirred together in a glass always cures my hiccups
5846
Use this old Navy cure to stop the dry heaves,\n\nShake a Coke until it's flat and start sipping.  Must be Coke, not Pepsi.  Something about the syrup in Coke does the trick.
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Here's what you do. Some people say mustard cures it, or water with cartwheels but this works best.\n\n1. Drink some cold water and let it slide down your throat.\n2. Begin to put some more cold water in your mouth but do not swallow.\n3. Hold water in throat for 10-15 sec. while not breathing through your nose.\n4. Swallow\n\nHopefully your hiccups will be gone by now, if not try this a second time and they will be gone.