Is there a real cure for Hiccupps?

Question:

I heard that if you swallow a spoonfull of sugar, it works for like 95% of people because the sugar untangles knots in your throat.
Is that true?
And what are some other methods to stop hiccupps?

Answers:
Drink warm sugar water.

Other Answers:
A spoon full of peanut butter works for me! Followed by a tall glass of milk!

It never really works for me and I get horrible hiccups. Getting frightened or distracting myself for a while seems to help a lot.

You know what actually works best for hiccups: swallow a spoon full of white vinegar.sounds weird but trust me it works every time.

I'm not sure if it's true, but I've heard that too. Whenever I get the hiccups, I inhale completely, and then I swallow my breath. I do this three times in a row, and usually the hiccups are cured! You should try it!

That works for me! Or you can plug your nose and swallow 3 times without breathing!

hiccups can be cured by a breathing technique i developed.
Slow deep breths out then slow deep in and so forth.
It works trust me

Try holding your breath as long as you can, through a hiccup even, if it happens, it usually works for me.

OR

A spoonful of peanut butter usually works provided you aren't allergic to nuts

Hold your breath . . . better yet, if you see someone who is hiccuping, sneak up behind them and scare the b'jesus out of them . . . that always worked for me when my niece had hiccups.

Yes the cure is simple, stop breathing.

Vinager in a spoon.
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It works for me.

i have heard holding your breath but i have tried that and i just think you get dizzy. drink water continuously for a few minutes and hopefully they will go away.. or just wait until they go away.
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my opinion and answer

It does actually. You are either acidotic or alkydotic, throwing your diaphram into spasms.
If the sugar doesn't work then you're alkydotic. Drink some lemonade made with REAL lemons.
That should take care of it.

This works for me every single time.
Drink a 6-8 oz. glass of water real fast all at once, then immediately take a deep breath, pinch your nose tight and hold your breath until you can't. Voila! No hiccups! Practice..I am 57 and it works every time.

this ones different but my family's always done it
take a pencil or straw and place it in your mouth sideways (so your biting down on the middle) and take a drink of water around the pencil. It has something to do with the way it makes you swallow.

Peanut Butter works all the time for me. I've never heard the sugar thing though.

Yes, the sugar thing is true.
A few other weird things work, too:
1) Drinking with a pencil in your mouth (To release the air from your stomach or whatever)
2) Eating a spoonful of peanut butter. I don't know why this works, but it always does.
3) Holding your breath while standing on your head. Once again, a strange remedy but it's always worked for me!
4) Having someone all the sudden say, "OK, can you hiccup for me?" because after that, for some reason, you just can't!
5) Having someone scare you! BOO!

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