Does anyone know a way to stop hiccups?

Answer 1

take a few deep breaths

Answer 2

Hold your breathe as long as you can to about 30 seconds, IF YOU CAN! Hiccups are nothing more than trapped air in the esophagus, OR the stomach. Holding your breath, i think, forces the trapped air UP OR DOWN . Hiccups could be, I say COULD BE an indication of a DISTENTION in some area of the digestive tract, where air gets trapped ALSO. MOST times though, just HOLDING your BREATH will cure the hiccups. Some cases need the doctors attention though.

Answer 3

Hold your breath until a hiccup comes- when it does, let it out and take another breath, and hold till the next comes. Repeat until you have held your breath as long as you can and there are no hiccups left. Other ways may be faster, but mine works too.

Answer 4

Hold your breath for 10-15 seconds, this will help keep your diaphragm expanded and can help with hiccups. If this doesn't work try drinking some water. I am not sure that the scaring people really works but you can have someone try to startle you.

Answer 5

A big spoonful of peanut butter (not crunchy). Enough so that it affects your breathing cycle. Hiccups are said to start because of an interruption, or "skewing", of your normal breathing pattern. Supposedly, hiccups are your body trying to correct the discrepancy. Peanut butter re-interrupts your breathing cycle and cures them. At least, it has worked for everyone that I know.

If you have severe chronic hiccups that just won't go away, you might oughta go to the doctor as they can be a sign of other serious problems such as tumors or kidney disease.

Answer 6

Yes I have many ways!

1.Eat peanut butter

2.Go upside down and drink warm water then hold your breath for 10 seconds.

3.Have someone scare you

4.Forget about your hiccups and then suddenly they will go away.

Answer 7

This has ALWAYS worked for me...
Take one big sip of water and seven little sips...in a row.

If its serious... (non-stop for days)...

Generations of physicians have yet to discover a definitive cure for hiccups. A statement from the Mayo Clinic expressed the situation perfectly in 1932, "The amount of knowledge on any subject such as this can be considered as being in inverse proportion to the number of different treatments suggested and tried for it."

Direct therapy at the cause of the hiccups, if identified, and then to the hiccups themselves, if needed. Treatments can be divided into the categories of pharmacological, nonpharmacological, and other. Elements of nonpharmacological treatments are as follows:

Many traditional remedies employed in an ED have a sound physiological basis affecting components of the hiccup reflex.
Stimulation of nasopharynx - Forcible traction on the tongue, swallowing granulated sugar, gargling with water, sipping ice water, drinking from the far side of a glass, biting on a lemon, inhaling noxious agents (eg, ammonia)

C3-5 dermatome stimulation - Tapping or rubbing back of the neck, coolant sprays, acupuncture

Direct pharyngeal stimulation - Nasal or oral catheter (90% effective)
Direct uvular stimulation - Spoon or cotton-tip applicator

Removal of gastric contents - Emetics, nasogastric tube
Vagal stimulation (Only one technique at a time is recommended.)
Iced gastric lavage

Valsalva

Carotid sinus massage (only by experienced personnel after exclusion of contraindications)

Digital ocular globe pressure (only by experienced personnel after exclusion of contraindications)

Digital rectal massage
Interference with normal respiratory function - Breath holding, hyperventilation, gasping (ie, fright), breathing into a paper bag (increases partial pressure of carbon dioxide), pulling knees up to chest and leaning forward, continuous positive airway pressure, rebreathing 5% carbon dioxide

Mental distraction - For example, ask the patient to "think of a loved one remembering you." An inventive naval doctor achieved success by offering $10 if the patient could continue to hiccup immediately.
Other
Behavioral conditioning (including other members of the family unit)

Hypnosis

Acupuncture

Phrenic nerve or diaphragmatic pacing: Incidental cure during cardioversion has been reported.
Phrenic nerve block surgery: Surgical interruption of the phrenic nerve has been advocated for intractable cases that are unresponsive to other treatment. This final and most drastic approach may be associated with considerable morbidity and is not universally successful. Microvascular decompression of the vagus nerve recently has been described as a successful procedure.

Prayer: The most novel cure for one patient was to pray to the Catholic patron saint of lost causes, St. Jude. After 8 years and more than 60,000 suggested treatments, his prayer to St. Jude was answered.

Answer 8

Breath into a brown paper bag, and then re-breath that same air a couple a three times.

Answer 9

sit in a chair bend over putting head between knees and slowwwwlllly sip water from far side of glass slowly breathing thru nose only.. continue breathing thru nose only for minute or two

Answer 10

A table spoon of vinegar, then hold your breath for 30 seconds.

Tastes really bad, but works !