What is the best/most interesting method for curing hiccups?
399055
As soon as I become aware that I am hiccupping, I will them away by saying "they're gone". Works for me. No one can believe it.
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Drink water and when you do it bring the back of ur neck fwd...like a huge gulp.It usually cures my hiccups.
257525
1. Keep holding your breath between hic-ups.\n2. Suck a tea spoon of sugar.(Slowly)\n3. Have someone scare you so you jump.
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Yawns and hiccups are our body's natural response to lack of oxygen.  Hiccups occur when our body thinks we're not breathing as often as we should, especially with any activity that involves using the mouth and respiratory system (eating/drinking or talking / singing).\n\nTherefore, use any one of the following (or a combination) as a cure for hiccups:\n\n1.) CLASSICAL / OPERA SINGER'S Long Breathing Exercises - Stand up, torso straight, head up, legs slightly apart, with your arms spread eagle-like almost to your ears.  Take a deep, deep breath -- imagine trying to fill your entire torso with air.  Hold for a few seconds.  Then, exhale all of the air as slowly as you possibly can, by making the sound of a snake ("Ssssss").  Slowly lower your arms all the way to rest on your sides as you say "Ssss," or until you have no breath left to expel. (You MUST expel all of it.)  Then repeat from the beginning.  Do at least 10 repetitions.\n \n2.)  Drink a glass of water.  Swallow large gulps, but not in rapid succession.  Take one big gulp every 10 seconds, until you finish off the glass.  \n\n3.) BRIDAL MARCH -- Start walking very slowly, taking slow breaths and exhaling properly as you do.  Walk like a bride:  one foot step forward , feet together;  other foot forward, both feet together.\n\n4.) TRY TO FORGET ABOUT TRYING TO GET RID OF HICCUPS.  Focus on something else vastly more important, more urgent, more interesting.  (Example:  look at some gorgeous nude guy's pic.)  Don't forget to breathe luxuriously.  :-)  Your body will gradually realize you don't need to hiccup to get enough oxygen, especially with your brain pre-occupied with something else.
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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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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.
925056
For a headache take anadin extra.For hiccups drink water from the opposite side of the glass,sounds weird but it really works..
1153821
If you go outside and find a small smooth pebble.  Then you place that pebble underneath a log, your hiccups will be cured.
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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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i have never heard of hiccups destroying brain cells. hiccups are actually caused when your diaphragm spasms.
640605
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.
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Inhale and exhale for a couple of minutes into a brown paper bag. Do this at a nice pace and you will normalize and lose the hiccups.
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I have two tried and true methods that work quite well. First, if you have a glass of water handy, take 10-15 small sips of water without breathing. This works similiarly as holding your breath, but I think teh drinking helps calm the diaphram. The second method is good if your friend has the hiccups and it's bothering you. Ask them quickly what they had for dinner two nights ago, or another similar question that will cause them to focus. 90% of the time as they are stumbling, "Umm...let's see...I think..." their hiccups will be gone! Good luck!
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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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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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I know some that work. For a head cold use pee(urine) from a baby or young person who is the opposite sex of the user.For a sprain, heat the urine and doak your injured foot in iy.The pain and swelling will disappear by the next day.When a baby is teething,to avoid the child having to use anything for pain during the process, kill a rat, get its tooth/teeth, put it in a cloth bag that is sewn up.Let the child wear it around the neck until after the teeth erupt. To get rid of hiccups, wet a piece of brown paper from a paper bag and put it on the forehead.The hiccups will stop in 5-30 minutes.These ideas would horrify the 'educated' but they are tried and true methods.
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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