How do I cure hiccups?

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You are gonna get a lot of answers saying to hold your breath, but that only works sometimes and not with every person. Try holding an ice cube to your throat for about 20 to 30 seconds. Also try holding your nose while you take big gulps of water.

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Hold your breath. Take a deep breath.

Hold your breath

Hold your breath while drinking a cup of water.

hold your breath

soemtimes when i talk it stops. lol

lie up side down against a wall and burp three times

Eat a spoonful of sugar quickly. Your senses will overload with the response from the receptors that the sugar triggered off, and you won't hiccup anymore.

wait it out.

Hold your breath under water for 10 minutes. Get a friend to help.

Try breathing into a paper bag or holding your breathe while drinking water (i'd do that for at least 5+ seconds). Drinking carbonated beverages (sodas) also does the trick sometimes.

I take a slice of lemon pour on some worcestershire sauce, then bite it and swallow.
It really works!
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bartender

Essential Oil Peppermint rubbed on the stomach about where your diaphram is.(just below your sternum)

A bartender once told me to plug my ears with my fingers and have some one hold a glass of water to my lips and drink. Something about the vaccum makes the spasm stop.

#1: hold your breath #2 drink water #3 get a good scare from your friend #4 try not to laugh at anything, cuz dat makes it worse: you start hiccupping and laughing more and it lasts longer #5 pretend to get angry and right away hold your breath #6 get distracted and amused #7 try to stand on one foot and hold your breath #8 try yawning a lot (hold your breath and you automatically yawn)
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i've tried most of these and #1,2,3 and #6 mostly worked i guess

What I have done for hiccups all my life is swallow saliva immediately after receiving the first hiccup and it goes away. I've done it forever and it works, try it next you get it. And don't over eat it sometimes causes hiccups.

Holding your breath doesn't really work. Burping does. There are two steps for a hiccup.. let's say you go hic (when you inhale) and then cup (when you exhale) Instead of exhaling the cup, burp it out. Hic, hold the air bubble in your throat and try to make it travel up, and burp it out. If you don't know how to make yourself burp (like myself), get yourself some coke or 7up or sprite, anything gassy to make you burp faster :o)
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My hubby is an expert at getting rid of his hiccups

Hold your index finger against the space between your eyes, just over your nose for 60 seconds! Congratulations no more hiccups.
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Grandma

Put a teaspoon of peanut butter in your mouth.
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Experience

Drink a glass of water. That helps. In my culture, when someone lies to you and you believe it (with the intention of trying to help you get rid of your hiccups). The hiccups go away. Only if you got tricked. (Example my sister used on me was she told me I had a white hair. When she told me that my heart was thumping as I ran to the mirror and found I had none where she pointed. I didn't even know I was being tricked. But my hiccups went away after that.) After that they can tell you the truth. It works 90% of the time. Other than these you just have to wait until it's gone.

My suggestion is granny given and proven, it's close to the one of alternatives, but

Press inward with pointer finger behind ears between bones,and press inwaed on that little thingy at the front of your ears with your middle finger at the same time and have someone else hold your glass of water while taking a breath then sip, then slowly release breath repeat for 5-10 sips .and then again maybe we know the same bartender?? Grannies name was Julia.LOL
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Granny

Set a glass of water on a table with a straw in it and plug your ears and nose while drinking from the straw, I swear it works. The spoon full of sugar works too, but it's hard to swallow, you'll have to drink water anyway.

Bend over like a 90 degree angle and just drink some water at the same time while still bending over. The hiccups will stop.

eat one teaspoon of sugar, will provide instant relief!

Spend 5 hours on youqa.com. Your hiccups should be gone by then.

To cure your case of the hiccups, eat a spoonful of peanut butter. It's the only sure-fire solution. Something about the thickness and the texture stop the hiccups from coming up.

2 methods, both work, but one is a bit difficult
1. Bite down on the middle part of a straw or pen or pencil in your mouth (the straw is not in your mouth like you are using to drink with, you are biting on the middle so the ends are outside your mouth near your cheeks). Then drink a half of a glass of water.

2. Take a full glass of water and drink on the opposite side that you normally do (so your chin is pratically in the glass). In order to do this you will have to bend your neck and head. Drink about half the glass.

Good luck

focus on your middle name for 5-10 seconds then say it OUT LOUD. if that doesn't work, use brother/sisters middle name.

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