What's your cure when you get the hiccups? I put sugar on my tongue and drink a full glass of water without stopping.

[debm55]

[unblock]

1. I just swallow at the same time as my hiccup and it's gone.

I don't think I've had more than 3 hiccups at a time in decades.

[debm55]

2. Thank you unblock.Interesting.

[LisaM]

3. Drink a little bit of bitters and then bite a slice of lime.

Usually works.

[debm55]

6. Thank you LisaM.

[Basso8vb]

4. I take 12 sips of water and swallow each one separately whole holding my breath.

A substitute teacher taught me this trick around 1980 and it works for me every time.

[debm55]

8. Interesting. Thank you Basso8vb.

[trueblueinmo]

5. Hiccups

Gargle with vinegar. Works everytime

[debm55]

9. Thank you trueblueinmo

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Hiccups are air in the stomach triggering an aborted expulsion repeatedly

So ... crane your neck back a little, lean back at the waist slightly, all to extend and relax the airway. Then pay careful attention to your own body and when you feel the air coalescing, squeeze slightly your diaphragm and be sure to relax the air in that instant to let the air really be expelled.

Now that I know what is happening and what to do I rarely have hiccups, only two or three cycles. Most often I feel it starting and immediately relax and expel. Voila, no hiccups.

All the other remedies like drinking water are to shake up the system to get that expulsion going. Simpler to just tune into your body, to really feeling it somatically, deep inside. There are internal sensory nerves for exactly that purpose though usually their sensations are passed to the 'unconscious' nervous system.

Become more conscious. Many many benefits besides no hiccups.

(Package label says "May not work for all people" )

[debm55]

10. Thank you very much for your interesting post. I will give it a try. Usually the hiccups start if I eat too fast.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Yes, then it is easy to inadvertently swallow some air if eating too fast. Commonest cause. . .nt

[debm55]

12. Thank you.

[boonecreek]

13. I just hold my breath.

It might take a couple of times but it works. 😖

[debm55]

14. Thank you boonecreek. I have tried and it didn't work. I think after holding my breath, I take a large gulp of air in.

[CanonRay]

15. Deep breath, hold for as long as you are able.

[debm55]

17. Thank you CanonRay, I have tried that and it doesn;t work for me. I am so glad it works for you

[SWBTATTReg]

16. I know that this is a weird one, get a large grocery shopping bag, and put it over your head, and breath for a few

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seconds. I am thinking that the breathing, impacted by the closed-up bag over your head, somehow affects/helps your breathing, getting rid of the hiccups.

Meant a paper sack too!

[debm55]

18. Thank you for your suggestion, SWBTATTReg

[Emile]

19. I do a Google search for cures.

[debm55]

20. HAHAHHAhha Thank you Emile

[justaprogressive]

21. Drink a glass of

water upside down. always works.

[debm55]

22. How do you drink it upside down without the water going all over the place.??????

[justaprogressive]

23. ok hold water glass in hand

stand up, bend over halfway and drink out of the opposite side if the glass.

the position and the swallowing releases the gas..

[debm55]

27. Thank you justaprogressive.

[happybird]

26. Works like a champ!

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Add: dang autocorrect! Works like a *charm* lol

[Harker]

24. I mutter a few mild oaths.

Then I swallow a couple mouthful of water in rhythmic little sips, which relaxes my spasmodic diaphragm.

[debm55]

28. Thank you Harker. No sugar?

[Harker]

38. Just plain water, debm55.

I'd make a poor hummingbird.

A huge one, though.

[Dorothy V]

25. Nothing. I ignore them and they go away after a little while. Seems they'd get worse if I tried to do anything about

them.

[debm55]

29. Thank you Dorothy V

[LizBeth]

30. Hold my breath, works for me almost every time.

[debm55]

33. Thank you LizBeth. I have tried but it doesn't work for me.

[LizBeth]

41. Bummer for you deb, and I mean it sincerely. Hate hiccups.

[OmegaX]

31. Take your finger...

...and press the back of your jawbone, right by the hollow below your ear for 10 seconds while holding your breath. Works like a charm...

[debm55]

37. Thank you very much OmegaX for sharing with us.

[rurallib]

32. Tickle the soft upper palate of your mouth with a finger for a few seconds

[debm55]

35. Thank you ruralib. I have never tried this before. I will next time.

[birdographer]

34. Hiccups have been a lifelong problem for me

I get them fairly often. Nothing would get rid of them. I would count them, going for the Guinness record, but would usually get bored around 200-300. My stomach would first just get upset, and then nausea would set in from the constant clenching of my diaphragm. Anything I might have been doing would have to stop because they were so disruptive. Of course finishing dinner was out of the question so I just left my spouse to eat alone.

Then I discovered a small straw called HiccAway. After decades of debilitating hiccups—they are gone in about 10 seconds using that straw! It’s truly amazing. A life-changer for me!

[debm55]

36. Thank you very much birdographer and thank you for sharing with us.

[Different Drummer]

39. A tablespoon of sugar has never failed to work for me.

[debm55]

40. Thank you Different Drummer, Sugar washed down with water works for me.