How can baby hiccup be stoped?
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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
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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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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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Just thinking about the next hiccup may stop you from having them. Some say that after the first few hiccups the rest are just in your mind and your body is following your mind. If this were true why do babies get the hiccups? Anyway just try to predict when the next hiccup will strike! You may be concentrating so hard that it just won't arrive. If you are with someone who has the hiccups offer them something if they can hiccup just three more times. If you offer them something like $5 or $20 it works even better! \n\nTake sugar swallowed dry, some say take a teaspoon others a tablespoon, and some say white and some say brown sugar, I think that depends on your personal taste.
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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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That is a good question.  I'm sure people have been asking that question \nsince before recorded history.  And you know what? We still don't know.  \nThat is, no one knows for sure.  After reviewing 192 scientific \nreferences, one researcher concluded, "The purpose of the hiccup is \nunknown".  \nThere is no question that a hiccup is a contraction of the diaphragm (the \nmuscle that controls breathing between the lungs and the abdominal area).  \nAnd since the diaphragm is controlled by the phernic nerve, it is most \nassuredly involved as well.  In fact, if you cut the phrenic nerve, there \nare no more hiccups.  But what does that have to do with overeating, or \ndrinking too much alcohol, or eating too fast (some things thought to \nsometimes cause hiccups)?  In other words the real question is, "why do we \nhiccup?"  What, in the course of our evolution, made it possible for those \nwho hiccup well (whatever that is) to survive over those who didn't \nhiccup?  It is very possible that the hiccup is a remnant from a very \ndistant evolutionary past that has no use anymore and may not even be the \nsame thing it once was.  Or, it may server some yet unidentified purpose.
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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. When you inhale, it pulls down to help pull air into the lungs. When you exhale, it pushes up to help push air out of the lungs. But sometimes the diaphragm becomes irritated. When this happens, it pulls down in a jerky way, which makes you suck air into your throat suddenly. When the air rushing in 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.\n\nPutting 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. Boo!
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Either drink water with your top of your head facing the floor, get someone to scare you, hold your breath, or a foolproof method is to continuosly try to tell when your next hiccup is coming on. As soon as you feel it coming on your hiccups will be gone. It has never failed me once.\n\nIf nothing works go here: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/waldo.php and try to find waldo. As soon as you do your hiccups will be gone :) \n\nRyan
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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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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 occur when a spasm contracts the diaphragm, a large sheet of muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity. This spasm causes an intake of breath that is suddenly stopped by the closure of the vocal cords (glottis). This closure causes the characteristic "hiccup" sound. A very full stomach can cause bouts of hiccups that go away on their own. Full stomach can be caused by:\nEating too much too fast. \nDrinking too much alcohol. \nSwallowing too much air. \nSmoking. \nSudden change in stomach temperature, such as drinking a hot beverage and then a cold beverage. \nEmotional stress or excitement.
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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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This article has some good info:\n\n"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. When you inhale, it pulls down to help pull air into the lungs. When you exhale, it pushes up to help push air out of the lungs. But sometimes the diaphragm becomes irritated. When this happens, it pulls down in a jerky way, which makes you suck air into your throat suddenly. When the air rushing in 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.\n\nPutting 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. Boo!
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you need to get in touch with your doctor or get a doctor,cuz you might have a illness that irritates the phrenic nerve in the diaphragm,you can get hiccups when you overeat,eatting too fast,drinking carbonated beverages.This method that someone told me to do once when I had the hiccups get a glass of water, a straw, put the straw in the glass of water put your mouth on the straw and block your ears with your fingers and drink the water thur the straw all of it. It works everytime when I have the hiccups.Good Luck.....
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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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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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Because hiccups are the spasms in the diapraghm, you need to regulate it's movement. The best way to do this, is to take a glass of water, place the edge of the glass between your teeth, take a sip, breathe in, take a sip, breathe out, take a sip, breathe in, take a sip breathe out, slowly for a few minutes until your hiccups go away.