how do we stop hiccups?
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drink some water or keep your breath
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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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maybe you're chronically dehydrated.  i believe that can cause hiccups.
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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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This is a true method.\n\nDrink from the backside of a cup of water!\n\nWith a cup half full, lower it waste high and bend over so that your mouth is on the back side of the cup. Continue bending and tip the cup so as to take a drink.\n\nWha-la, your hiccups are gone.
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I think it is due to a spasm in your diaphragm. If you breathe in real slowly and then exhale real slowly a couple of times it can stop your hiccups.
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Drink a spoonful of lemon juice.\nthe sour taste shocks your nerves and stops hiccups.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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This is the only real way to instantly cure the hiccups! Look no further!  The Hughes/Green method cure's the hiccups EVERY time GUARANTEED!  You will be amazed!  Hundreds of instantly cured hiccuper's have sent in their testimony's of deliverance! Files are available for researchers! Carefully understand both the HOW and the WHY of this method. If you don't get the WHY you might not get the HOW. Here's how to cure the hiccups:\n\n"Hughes/Green Hiccups Cure"© 1997\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.\n\nThis cures the hiccups 99 percent of the time - guaranteed! It's a proven medical remedy! (A second treatment could be necessary for stubborn cases.)\n\n*** For stubborn cases, try EXHALING COMPLETELY and then taking 10 - 20 swallows.\n\n      NOW: HERE'S WHY IT WORKS: Hiccups are caused by an uncontrollable spasm in the diaphragm, (the "breathing" muscle). Often, this spasm is triggered by irritable conditions in the smooth muscles of the stomach or the esophagus. The "Hughes/Green Hiccups Cure" forces an increase in the carbon dioxide levels in the diaphragm itself, as well as in the stomach and esophagus. By swallowing, you are making the muscles work -- so they use up their available oxygen and replace it with carbon dioxide. By temporarily discontinuing to breath, you prohibit new oxygen from entering your body and thus create an anaerobic condition in the spasming diaphragm muscle. When the spasming diaphragm and stomach are deprived temporarily of oxygen and encounter the higher levels of carbon dioxide ... you feel that scary drowning sensation! BUT this causes the spasming muscles to relax! The hiccups go away! Essentially, you are "tricking" your body into thinking that it's drowning ... and it decides to use it's resources for something other than hiccuping. The rather "scary" drowning sensation caused by this method is NECESSARY for the method to work. If it's not just a little bit difficult ... it doesn't work.
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Take a deep breath in, but don't hold it, just keep the air in your lungs for about 3-5 cycles (the time it would take for you to breathe in and out 3-5 times). \n\nA hiccup results from your brain thinking your lungs aren't getting enough oxygen, so it forces oxygen in until something turns the trigger off. Holding your breath doesn't turn the trigger off, because the hiccupping is centered around the inhale, but holding your breath = pausing the exhale. But if you keep your lungs in a posture of continuous inhalation, the hiccups stop immediately because the brain realizes the lungs are fully saturated.
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Here's the real answer to your question:\n\nTake a deep breath in, but don't hold it, just keep the air in your lungs for about 3-5 cycles (the time it would take for you to breathe in and out 3-5 times).  \n\nA hiccup results from your brain thinking your lungs aren't getting enough oxygen, so it forces oxygen in until something turns the trigger off.  Holding your breath doesn't turn the trigger off, because the hiccupping is centered around the inhale, but holding your breath = pausing the exhale.  But if you keep your lungs in a posture of continuous inhalation, the hiccups stop immediately because the brain realizes the lungs are fully saturated.
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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.
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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..