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I think this is one of those questions where there is no overall 'right' answer, but I find that sometimes just simply lying down flat on the floor with your arms above your head does it, or, failing that, drinking a spoonful of vinegar.
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The solution that has worked for me for many years has been to hold my breath for 30 seconds. If I still hiccup after that I do it again. I've never had to do it more than twice, but usually only have to do it once.
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Adding to what Kim has said, Inhale till you lungs are full of air and then hold on for a few sec. Actually when we just inhale, only 20% of our lungs are filled. This remedy works because a hicupp is nothing but the disturbance in the rythmic pattern of breathing, caused by the gases released due to indigestion and few other reasons.So no breathing means no disturbance in the breathing pattern.And after a few seconds the body adjusts itself and releases the little amount of gas systematically. And yes,this technique really works!!
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This may sound like the stupidest answer in the world, but (if you're old enough/in a relationship/whatever) French Kissing works. Well, it works for me anyway. Obviously, every person will be different. The vinegar/spoonful of honey/holding my breath and all of the other home remedies never really worked for me. Or if they did, it was only temporary. So if you're in a position to try my answer, see if it works for you.
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This is THE solution. You need a trusted friend to help you... Have your friend stand behind you. Take in as much air as you possibly can. Now take in more. Hold it. Get your friend to hold their arms firmly locked in under your ribcage, pushing upwards on your diaphragm, and lean forwards as far as you can for as long as you can, holding your breath the whole time. It works! Honestly! N.B. Persons suffering from homophobia are advised to use a friend of the opposite gender in order to avoid confusing themselves.
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The best cure I find is to hold an item between your teeth ... say a knife ... aye maities! and go to the sink ... turn on the faucet and drink from it ... still holding the item in your teeth. yes you have to tilt you head to the side for this to work ... and it works like a charm every time!!!!
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I find that anything with a thick texture helps. I use a Spoonful of Peanut butter (creamy) or a nice thick Milkshake.
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Well what I do is I get someone to hold my nose and ears (so no air gets in ) While I drink as much as I can in 1 loooong gulp an after i have done that my hiccups are gone
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The best cure for a hiccup is a spoonful of peanut butter. If you slosh it around and swallow it slowly, it works 100% of the time!
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It sounds too simple, I know, but the best solution to the problem is to take a spoon full of sugar and put it under your tongue untill the sugar melts. I didn't believe it myself untill i tried it and it has NEVER failed me.
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Tae Kwon Do instructors have advised to drink through a straw while putting your fingers in your ear, any liquid can be used. It sounds silly, but it has never failed to work for myself and children. Not to mention.. it's harmless.
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I have tried many different solutions, but the one that has always worked for me is a teaspoon of sugar. Let it melt in your mouth; then swallow. My relief is always immediate.
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I personally just get a large glass of water, and gulp it down nonstop until the entire glass is gone. However, I have noticed that carbonated beverages like soda or seltzer, and even ginger ale, can quickly subdue hiccups if you gulp them down quickly. For me, when I have hiccups, I notice that when I use the 'gulping' method, I usually feel it do its job, i.e. I will burp afterwards, or feel an 'internal belch' about midway through my chest. As for the holding breath method, it never works for me, but i'm sure it works for others.
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One decent cure for hiccups is to hold ur breath for at least 20 secs and pound on the center of your chest. It seems awkward but its always worked for me.
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ive found that a spoonful of sugar, with a few drops of lemon. I got it from my teacher, and its never failed her! Me either,although i've only done it once. Must remember to dry the sugar-melting method though!
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I know this might seem a little odd, but when I get the hiccups I hold someone's finger with my hand and I have to anticipate the next hiccup and squeeze their finger just before I hiccup. The anticipation of making sure you squeeze the persons finger before you hiccup is what makes me stop the hiccups all together. My mother taught me this little trick and it has never failed to completely work everytime.
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I get hiccups often and have found that eating a tablespoon of peanutbutter stops my hiccups. This is the only thing that will stop my hiccups. It works almost instantly and plus it taste good too.
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I know that all you have to do is get ur mind off of them. I had the hiccups at work one day and i hate the hiccups they hurt!...well this customer looked at me and said "have you ever seen a gray horse"??? i started thinking..."well im not sure"? then he asked me if i still had the hiccups and i didnt...it is just like getting someone to scare you or drinking water upside down. You just have to focus on something else...all the answers i have seen seem pretty resonable except for the one about holding your breath while your friend lifts you up with your arms under your rib cage im pretty sure it will get rid of the hiccups bc u will pass out!. but there is really no need to go through all that trouble!
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This might sound absolutely crazy but works...make a conscious effort to say "here it comes" just before the next hiccup happens. It is especially helpful if someone is there repeating the instructions. You are so stuck concentrating on the when that next hiccup hits that it doesn't. One of two may get by, but if you continue concentrating they go away....
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As a bartender, I have heard of and seen many "cures". This one has only failed once that I have seen: Put your pointer fingers in your ears and use your thumbs to crimp your nose shut. Then drink from a straw some water in a cup. It doesn't have to be much water, but enough for a few swallows. Like I said, I have only seen it not work once and that person was too drunk to care anyway!!!
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You can never have enough hiccup cures... Personally, I get a pair of ice cubes and put them on each side of my adam's apple and hold them there for about 15-30 seconds or so. I don't know why, but this ALWAYS works. whatever you do, dont ask this guy what to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Osborne
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Drink a glass of water thru a paper towel...it works every time. I thought my mom was nuts when she told me...but I guess that "family secret" really helps.
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Cure for Hiccups... THIS CURE WORKS FOR ME FIRST TIME, EVERY TIME AND THEY DO NOT RETURN. HERE'S HOW I DO IT. NO PROPS, TOOLS, DRUGS, WATER, ETC. YOU CAN DO IT ANYWHERE, ANYTIME IN UNDER 30 SECONDS. Exhale out all your breath as much as you can and hold it as long as you can. When you cannot hold it out any longer, take a long, SLOW, deep breath. Pause and slowly exhale again. Relax and breath normally. If this works for you too, post a comment here(myspace.com/techmanbob) and let me know. Good luck!!!
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in college i drank a lot of beer and would get the hiccups a lot, along with everybody else. a soriety sister showed me a way that actually worked. when u have them, the key part is to TRY AND MAKE YOURSELF HICCUP AGAIN AND THEY WILL GO AWAY cause u can't make yourself hiccup of purpose or when someone is hiccupping just go up to them and out of the blue ask them when is the last time they seen an all white horse.
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breathing CO(carbon monoxide)... or in plain english breath from a paper bag...
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Unfortunately no. There are a couple of well publicised cases of hiccupping lasting for months without cessation recently. For the most, however, they soon stop. Diversion seems to be one method, drinking helps some, holding breath, meditation, running....all help some, but not others.
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The only thing that i find works for me is to seriously control my breathing -breathe in for a count of 8 hold for 8 breathe out for 8 hold for 8 and repeat until they stop (usually 1-2 min)
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In the usual kind of hiccups that people generally get I find this works in 99% of cases. Start swallowing your own saliva, and keep on doing it, constantly and repeatedly. Eventually you swallow down on a hiccup coming up and they seem to cancel each other out and the hiccups stop. Goodluck.
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Brain normally empty any way so I'm half way there
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I personally breath slowly and deeply, and after a few minutes that seems to help.
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Three conventional methods: .Hold your breath .Drink plenty of water .Stand on your head. I am unsure of wether any of these methods have been scientifically proven to work though
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Try to sip water from a cup using only your pinkies to left the cup while at the same time plugging your ears with your thumbs. This technique always does the trick for my hiccups. :]
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Hold your breth and bend like your trying to crack your back sitting in a chair.
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I find that holding my breath for as long as I could or like, 15 to 30 seconds gets rid of hiccups.
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NyQuil cures everything.
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Drink a bottle of cooking oil lying on the kitchen table with all the lights off. that might work
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Eat peanut butter. Might sound silly, but it really works.
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for me, drinking water from the far side of the glass works most of the time. (by leaning over, not by just turning the glass around.) there is ONE medically proven cure but i'm not going to get into that!
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I like the scare tactic. My husband had the hiccups and I was coming to a stop in the road. Instead of stopping, I slowed down really slowly and braked just before stopping completely and sucked in my breath really loud. It scared the hiccups right out of him.
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I drink a lot of water or make a balloon Burst.
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I always sit in a chair and breathe in deeply. Then I try to put my head between my knees. The pressure on my diaphram usually helps to stop the hiccups, especially the tough ones. Once I start to feel all the blood going to my head, I bring it back up and let my breath out slowly.
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Hold your breath for about 30 seconds.
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drink sugared water.
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Hold your breathe
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Have the person raise their arms over their head and then hold a glass of water to their mouth and have them drink as much as they can very quickly. I've heard that hiccups are caused by a bubble of gas under your diaphragm and this seems like it would strecth it out really well. It's always worked for me.
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Eating sugar, a tablespoon should be good enough.
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Here's a cool link : http://www.mastersweep.com/curehiccups.htm
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Did you know that hiccups are caused by your spine? Weird, huh?
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Take a deep breath and then take 2 sips of water or whatever beverage is handy at the moment. Works for me everytime.
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I've found success with these two methods: 1) take a glass of water and a butter knife (nothing sharp!) Hold the butter knife in your teeth, like a dagger, and drink the entire glass of water despite holding the utensil in your teeth. Something about the way it makes the air move. 2) take a glass of water (I use a big plastic cup) and drink it from the oposite side of the rim -- the far rim. You'll have to lean way over, bent at the waist, and you wind up tucking the cup of water up toward your neck as you get water from the other side of the rim, but again, with the air flow pattern, it works.
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Take a mouthful of water, then slowly swallow it as you turn around three times slowly to the right. Then take another mouthful of water, slowly swallow it aws you turn around three times slowly to the left. Drink one more sip of water . Voila! They are gone! This is my Daddy's method and it has ALWAYS worked for me.
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If someone scares the living hell out of you, that will be an effective method. I've heard of it working on others. I can't validate this technique since I've never been on either side of the equation.
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My husband teaches Shiatsu and there is a point on the body that you can press that will help with hiccups. If you will press the center of your palm with your thumb or index finger, kind of hard, it should make them stop. You can almost feel the spot becasue it might be a little sensitive or sore. I know it works for me almost instantly. It doesn't work on him. For him I also have to pinch his thumb, same hand. But I have shared this method with many people and for most hiccups, it works. I usually get hiccups from hot or spicy food.
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Try holding about a teaspoon full of sugar under your tongue and let it dissolve. Sounds like total B.S. , but, I swear it has worked for me.
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holding your breath and swallow ten times
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This has worked for me every single time I've done it (correctly): 1. Plug your nose and your ears (try a clothespin on your nose and put your fingers in your ears) 2. Drink a full cup of water (nonstop) My 12th grade orchestra teacher told me this and she said it has something to do w/relieving pressure inside the thoracic cavity. My guess would be that since hiccups are caused by the involuntary contractions/spasm of the diaphragm, drinking the water changes the pressure inside the thoracic cavity, thereby minimizing the contraction strength of the diaphragm (b/c it then has to work against the pressure gradient caused by the drinking of the water if it wants to keep spasming). Once the diaphragm is no longer able to spasm (causing you to hiccup), the hiccups stop. Since changes in pressure are what cause us to be able to breathe in the first place, I find this very believable- but who really cares eh? As long as it works.
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Hold your nose then take a drink of water, that should do the trick
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This always works for me: Hold as much breath in as you can, then let it all out in a big cough. I hope this helps. ;-)
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thanx. but neither worked :(
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Look at a picture (go to www.640am.com) and look at Dr.Laura's face. Not only will looking at her homelyface scare away your hiccups but anything else you might have like pimples.
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a spoonful of sugar (honest. This has nothing to do with Mary Poppins, it works for me).
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These have helped me: - Stretching my body over the bed - 9-11 swallows of water while holding my breath - Sudden fear - Deep breathing into a paper bag - much the way we treat hyperventilation
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put a paper napkin on a glass of water and drink it (through the paper) backwards (on the otherside of the rim). i swear this ALWAYS works. yeah, you might spill it a bit but its just water.
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Try this! It worked for me. Just hold your breath for 10 seconds, and see if that will do.
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put your hand down the garbage disposal. and reach for the switch
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My husband is a massage therapist and Shiatsu teacher. He has a method of stopping hiccups. It works almost instantly on some people. Like ME! Take your thumb and place it in the center of your palm of your other hand. There is a small kind of tender area in the center there. Press down with your thumb. It usually takes just a few minutes to work. I did this to a cashier at a store and she was amazed. It's am acupressure point. If it doesn't work on it's own, you can at the some time, pinch the tip of your other thumb. Kind of hard to do, best to have someone else do it for you. This is what works for him. But for me, it's a brief touch in the center and hiccups are gone.
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I tense up my diaphragm for a few seconds like I am trying to do a sit-up/crunch. Holding your breath does the same thing, but doesn't tighten up the muscle enough to stop it from spasming, and that is basically what hiccups are; spasms of the diaphragm.
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Swallow one teaspoon full of plain table sugar. It works. Don't know how or why, but it works.
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bend from the waist and drink tepid water from the far side of the glass. awkward and i'm not sure it will work, but it's possible.
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Hold your breath for 10 seconds. It does the trick for me.
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Nine sips of water does it every time for me.
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My hiccup cure is looking at my brother's face since it scares me.
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Ok this is kinda weird, but I swear it works every time! Take a mouthful of a beverage (water works best, and nothing carbonated!), but don't swallow it! With the drink still in your mouth, stand up and bend over so your head is between your knees. Swallow while your head is upside down, and viola, no more hiccups! Try it ;)
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This sounds so bizarre I hesitate to even tell it, but it DOES work. A piece of red thread or string about a foot long - wad it up and place it on your forehead. Don't ask because I have no idea how or why. I read about it in an old (1880s) folk remedy book I found at an auction. Tried it, it worked, been using it ever since.
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Keep gulping down water until they go. Always works.
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Holding your breath for as long as possible. It relaxes ur diafram and therefore stops ur hiccups
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Strip down to my birthday suit, don my Michael Meyer's mask and run around the house until I pass in front of a mirror. It also does a great job of curing the hiccups of anyone else I chance upon. Or that holding your breath thing.
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Rub your ear lobes... it is connected to your wind pipe and loosens it up and stops the air from making you hiccup.
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I always yell the word fuck as loud as I can. They go away immediatly everytime. I have no idea why.
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Works every time for me and I tell everyone I know: swallow as much sugar (granulated, not powdered)as you can as quickly as possible. Don't let it sit in your mouth and dissolve into a comfortable paste. The idea is to make your mouth, throat, and diafragm work hard to get that sugar down. It should stop the muscles from constricting. And you'll never look at sugar the same way again! ;)
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The only true way to cure hiccups is to tilt your head down, putting your chin on your chest. Then take an uncarbonated drink, usually water or juice, and drink the liquid with your chin on your chest, not tilting your head back up. I know this sounds like a hard task but when you do this, the liquid releases the last amount of gasses in your body that cause hiccups. Believe me medically speaking this is the only way to actually cure hiccups. I know different things work for different people, but this remedy will work for everyone, guarenteed!!!
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I keep my breath and swallow three times! Its the best thing!!! =]
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I always drink a huge cup of water while holding my breath for as long as possible. If it doesnt work the first time I will do it once more. If it doesnt work then either I just give up. Im ok wih hiccups if they dont hurt.
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Best "cure" I found for it is: Take a deep breath (between hiccups), and take 10 (not 9, not 11, but 10) sips/swallows of water or some other non-carbonated drink, and breathe out. If you hiccup in the middle, start over. If you hiccup afterwards, do it again (you probably caught air, miscounted or something.) Has always worked for me, and I know it worked for an overnight DJ once. (He had them on the air... I called in, told him how to cure them, and when the song ended, he said he was cured and thanked the caller (me!). I called back and asked if I won anything and he said the only thing he could give me was his undying gratitude.)
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The more often than not works, hold your breath as long as you can, even if you keep hiccuping, do it about 4 times in a row and they should go
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eat peanut butter, hold your breath while drinking water. Get someone to scare you. Plug your ears and nose while drinking also helps.
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Hold your breath for 30 seconds, and then cough. If you still have the hiccups, repeat. Alternatively, just drink some water. You don't have to hold your nose or anything while doing this. Relax, I guarantee you that if you use either of these methods your hiccups will go away very quickly.
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Water has worked for me but, When I was younger my older brother's always loved to scare them away. What fun they had. LOL
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a teaspoon of sugar dissolved in a cup of water. Works everytime for me.
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Breathe filling up as much of your lungs as possible, starting in your diaphragm (if you were ever in chorus or in band you know what I am talking about), and hold it for a few seconds. Continue to breathe in this way, but without holding it for about 30 seconds. If you still have the hiccups after this, take a long drink of water and really focus on it, the way that it tastes, feels and looks draining out of the glass (this involves you holding your breath again, but at the same time focusing on something other than your hiccups). And then continue to breathe again. Repeat for as long as you need to.
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Honestly I have done this and it has worked. Have someone look you dead in the eye and tell you "I bet you can't hiccup again" and you won't be able to.
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Drink a glass of water but lean your head over the glass and lightly slip the water in helps me :)
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I find that bending over and touching my toes (or as far as you can reach) without bending my knees. Hold for ten seconds and they always go.
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Hold your breath till you no longer can.
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My husband was a shiatsu teacher and he taught me something that is just amazing for hiccups. You take a finger, index or thumb usually and you press in a small indentation that is near the center of your palm. It will feel like a little sensitive area. Push there and it usually will just take a few seconds for the hiccups to stop. On me it's like 2-3 seconds. I've done it on clerks or cashier people when I've noticed they have hiccups, asking if I an try something. They give me their hand and I press and voila' Gone!
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well this works for everybody i come across that has the hiccups, all you got to do is get you a cold drink like water, gatorade ect. bend forward over while standing till your head is close to your knees and drink just a little bit but just enough now remember dont hold the cup like if you were standing in a straight position and your hiccups are gone trust me it works on me , my kids, co workers and everybody else please try it and spread the word thank
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eat a spoonful of peanut butter
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Death. It fixes it every time.
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Standup, bend over and stick your head as far between your knees as possible and hold for as long as possible. This tightens up the muscles that cause hickups and will stop them every time. Cool avitar being a star wars fan.
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Death. Works every time.
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