2006-09-05 10:04:57 · 15 answers · asked by dreamlightweaver 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Old wive's tales that tell you to say the alphabet backwards while standing on your head and drinking water...these are all tomake you feel silly and forget the hiccuping.
To understand what hiccups are, feel the area that is affected, right under your ribcage. Your diaphraghm, a special muscle used to control your breathing, is having spasms, causing air to come up, and hiccup.
I was in choir for 4 years, and the best treatment for me was to focus on that muscle just like any other, and relax. Breathe slowly through your nose, from your belly-button. Concentrate relaxing that muscle long enough, and they should be gone.
Once you become good at it, you will become like me, and rarely hiccup again. If you do, you will be able to quickly control it (a must on stage!)
2006-09-05 10:13:40 · answer #1 · answered by rouschkateer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A teaspoon of vinegar; yawn, if you can do it at will;breathe in and out with a paper bag over your mouth and nose; raise your arms above your head and lean to one side, then the other; all of these work some of the time - good luck!
2006-09-05 17:19:15 · answer #2 · answered by Frankie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a paper bag, hold by putting your thumb and forefinger together and folding the bag around them near the top, and breathe in and out into it.
Another way is to do a headstand and drink a glass of water!!
Or hold your breath!
2006-09-05 18:21:12 · answer #3 · answered by Tivvy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try holding your breathe for 20 seconds (not 10) and then taking a few sips of water slowly.. works for me!
2006-09-05 17:13:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a big breath, close your mouth. Hold it for a few seconds then take a biiiiiig gulp. Sometimes works :)
2006-09-05 17:20:46 · answer #5 · answered by Barmycarmy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bend over and drink a glass of water from the opposite side of the glass than you normally would. works for all my family!
2006-09-05 17:08:13 · answer #6 · answered by emn2111 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i find taking tiny sips from a glass of water constantly for about a minute works for me
2006-09-05 17:10:45 · answer #7 · answered by zeldieuk2002 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A small spoon full of vinegar should do the trick.
2006-09-05 17:15:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
drink a glass of water upside down!
2006-09-05 17:17:07 · answer #9 · answered by womam12 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swallow while holding your head upsidedown (or leaning forward as much as you can). 99% succcess rate.
2006-09-05 17:10:37 · answer #10 · answered by rosemary_rance 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋