Right. Is there any easy proven hiccup cure that you use? The breath holding thing works, but makes me light headed. Help? I've got hiccups for the second time today.
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Littlemisswallflower
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Take a teaspoon of Vinegar like a shot. I know it sounds crazy but it works wonders.
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This has worked for me 90% of the time. I either: Lay down on a couch or bed with my head hanging from the edge. Take a drink of water and swallow it with your head upside down. Do this 2 or three times. If there's nowhere near to lay down I bend over and do almost the same thing. This has garnered some laughs and teasing from friends but damn if it doesn't work, at least for me. Hiccups are involuntary contractions of the diaphragm so maybe the upside-down thing actually works in the sense of re-arranging it. I know, very scientific there : )
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The only medically proven "cure" for hiccups is called a "digital rectal massage", it involves a nerve that runs from the head down the back to the bum. I'll stick with the usually methods of breath control.
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OK... . . . . . . . . BOO! . . . Did i scare them out of you?
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Get a glas of water. Bend over at the waist and drink the glass of water while bent over. It almost always works for me.
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Have someone perform the Heimlich maneuver on you. I did this successfully on a friend of mine. The hiccup was gone immediately.
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In shiatsu massage there is a point in the center of your hand that is great for hiccups. Just press in the center, you should feel a little indentation and poke your thumb in there with the other hand or have someone else do it. My husband does it for me and it works almost immediately. For some people they may hiccup 2 more times but usually it's done with. Once I was going through a checkout line and noticed that the woman had hiccups. I asked her for her hand and she looked at me weird. I pressed the center for just a few seconds and they went away. She was amazed:-)
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Chugging a beer always works for me, doing it upside-down is even more affective.
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It is holding the breath because hiccups are caused be a lack of CO2.
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I have always found that holding my breath makes the hiccups go away.
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