2007-09-04 22:45:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
1st - you get a star for making me chuckle! :-)
2nd - all the suggestions are good. I might add that sometimes the only thing that helps me, when I've tried all the rest, is drinking something carbonated fairly quickly. (soda, mineral water, something like that) The bubbles seem to knock my diaphragm back into place. . . sounds silly, I know, but works for me.
Hope your hiccups are gone soon (probably are by the time you read this anyway).
2007-09-05 05:07:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny question you asiskia-up! Lol. I had the hiccups at least once a day my freshman year of college. It was ridiculous. Nothing seemed to work. I've heard of holding you breath, drinking water real fast, standing upside down, having someone "scare" them out of you.... but recently I have found a full proof cure, at least for me.
My fiance came to the realization, that every time I have the hiccups and he asks me a stupid question.... they dissappear. There are rules though, it has to seem legitamate. Such as "honey, when are we going to the baseball game?" I might respond with "monday at 2:30". Then he will respond with "I know, but what day?" And i sit there thinking, My god.... i just said monday. Is he serious? And by the time i give him my trademark "you can't be for real, are you being that retarded" look... i finally realize what he's doing, and alas --- my hiccups doth dissapearith.
;-)
2007-09-04 22:57:34 · answer #2 · answered by Jewls 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What ho, hic.
A sure fire method, works every time, is a swallow of proper malt vinegar. Just a teaspoonful.
I kid you not. It is not an "old wives tale", it relaxes the spasms causing the hiccups. by giving the nerves & muscles a bit of a shock. No harm done if you like a bit of vinegar on your chips.
Trust me - it works !
Bob
2007-09-05 02:03:50 · answer #3 · answered by Bob the Boat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy peasey!
Just regulate your breathing again.
Take deep breaths through the hiccups. All the usual methods such as sippin water etc do the same thing.
2007-09-05 00:44:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heres a trick thats simple and has always worked for me.
Get a lemon or a lime, cut it in half, tilt your head back and squeese some juice from the lemon/lime to the BACK of your throat, not your tongue.
Works like a charm.
2007-09-05 07:33:43 · answer #5 · answered by Magno 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sip a glass of water - tiny sips but keep swallowing as though they were large gulps - and without breathing - for as long as you can.
Then breath shallowly - they'll be gone.
2007-09-04 22:50:52 · answer #6 · answered by Robert W 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this is the best way - get soimeone to feed water to you from a cup whilst you have you figers in you ears. Honest it does work but you need to have you fingers in your ears, it shoudl then force you to do a reather loud burp and it should stop. works for me everytime.
2007-09-05 01:25:11 · answer #7 · answered by corrinab2705 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a cup of water, hold it in front of you, lean over the cup and drink from the far side of the cup!
2007-09-05 12:55:18 · answer #8 · answered by happyearthmother 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an old home remedy: think about someone or something you really love. sounds ridiculous, but it works by getting you to breathe deeper, slower, and more relaxing breaths. Good luck.
2007-09-05 02:58:37 · answer #9 · answered by lisa m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may need to go for a poo.... I had bad hiccups the other day, then I went for a poo, and they cleared up...
2007-09-04 22:58:05 · answer #10 · answered by Buzzard 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋