how can i get rid of the hic-ups?
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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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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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Swallowing a lot of air causes hiccups though I don't know why exactly. Surefire way to get rid of them: Hold your breath and take a few sips of water as you hold it. Wait about twenty seconds or so. This has never failed me.
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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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Hiccups are causes by your diaphragm being in spasm.  So my theory is try to get the diaphragm out of spasm by tweaking it.  Breathe in deeply and expand your chest and push out your stomach muscles.  Hold it for as long as you can, and then repeat.  It does work most of the time.\n\nIf you would a long list of possible solutions please check this link.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccups
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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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a hicky is a bruise, and nothing but time will get rid of it.  \n\nmake-up might help cover it, though. also try alternating cold and warm compresses.
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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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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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Drinking alot of water. No more soda. And avoid all greasy foods.\nAlso, avoid touching your face with your hands.\nYou will be clear in no time.
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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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Folk\nAnise seed (for infants) Pour a cupful of boiling water over a teaspoonful of anise seeds; steep; give the baby one or two teaspoonsful. It often cures immediately. Nursing the baby will frequently stop the hiccups, too.\n\nApple cider vinegar Slowly sip a glass of warm water mixed with one teaspoon of vinegar. Works better when the water is drunk from the far side of the glass.\n\nBaking soda (bicarbonate of soda) Mix two teaspoonsful of baking soda, two teaspoonsful of aromatic spirits of ammonia with four ounces of peppermint water. Dose: one tablespoonful; repeat if necessary.\n\nBreathing Breathe into a small paper bag that is tightly pressed around your mouth. Or try spreading your arms out like a "T" and take a very deep breath. Repeat several times. Or try taking a deep breath and holding it as long as you can.\n\nChamomile Put 1 drop of chamomile essential oil in a brown paper bag; hold bag over nose and mouth; breathe in and out slowly and deeply through the nose.\n\nCamphor Mix three drops of spirits of Camphor in half a glassful of water and drink.\n\nCollar bones Put strong pressure on the collar bones.\n\nHoney Take a teaspoon of honey.\n\nIce  Eat or suck on a piece of ice. \n\nLemon Mix the juice of one lemon in half a glass of water; drink; repeat if the first drink didn't stop the hiccups.\n\nLemon/salt Put a teaspoonful of salt on half a lemon and then suck the juice out of the lemon.\n\nLemon/bitters Eat a slice of lemon which has been soaked in angostura bitters.\n\nOrange Drink the juice from 1/2 an orange.\n\nPeanut butter Eat 1 teaspoon of peanut butter.\n\nPepper, red Pour a half pint of boiling water over a quarter of a red pepper; steep; drink a wineglassful. If no red pepper is available, use five drops of tincture of Capsicum in a tablespoonful of water.\n\nPineapple juice Take a few rapid swallows of canned pineapple juice. Repeat hourly if necessary.\n\nSugar Cure hiccups by placing a teaspoon of sugar on the tongue and washing it down with a glass of cold water. Another sugar remedy suggests swallowing it dry.\n\nSugar/lemon Soak a cube of sugar in fresh lemon juice and let it dissolve in your mouth.\n\nTartar, cream of Add 1/3 teaspoon  of cream of tartar to 8 oz. of warm water; drink 2 tablespoons at a time on an empty stomach.\n\nWater Drinking water in various fashions has been an age-old cure. Here are several variations. Plug your ears and drink a glass of ice cold water; or slowly sip a cup of warm water; sip a cup of warm water with honey in it. For infants:  hiccups usually disappear in 5-10 minutes. If hiccups do not disappear, give the baby a bottle of sugar water. Mix one-quarter teaspoon of sugar with four ounces of water.\n\nPlay "hear no evil." Some doctors recommend that you put your fingers in your ears - and not because they don't want you to hear yourself hiccop. It seems that branches of the vagus nerve also reach into the suditory system, and by stimulating the nerver endings there, the vagus nerve goes into action. Of course, other doctors insist that you should never put anything smaller than you elbow in you ear in order to avoid irritating or damaging the ear canal. So if you do decide to try this hiccup reliever, be gentle, and don't stick your fingers too far into your ears.
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Hold your breath and drink a big glass of water. Keep doing it until they're gone. Works for me every time.
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This always works on me.......take a deep breath and hold it for 10 seconds, breath it out slowly until you have no more air in your lungs and then dont breath in for 10 seconds, breath in slowly....your hiccups should be gone!!!  You may need to do it twice!  Hope that helps!
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THere isnt a scientific way to get rid of them. But some folk remedies are scaring people, eating a tablespoon of white sugar, or breathing in a paper bag. 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.
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Take a vaccuum cleaner and hold it up to your arm for about 30 seconds and then remove it.  That's a hickey.
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1. Keep holding your breath between hic-ups.\n2. Suck a tea spoon of sugar.(Slowly)\n3. Have someone scare you so you jump.