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How to Get Rid of Hiccups
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1. Hiccu-wha?
Hiccups are involuntary spasms of the diaphragm often accompanied by the familiar “hic” sound. Occasionally they manifest as louder and more embarrassing “huuuugggghhhh”s. Why do we hiccup? It’s a mystery.
2. Tips for Getting Rid of Hiccups
Repeated swallowing works for mild cases. Do this by holding your breath and repeatedly swallowing as fast as you can, or by slowly drinking down a beverage with as many swallows as is possible. It’s important that you hold your breath for as many gulps as you can. Placing a napkin over a glass of water canl help moderate your speed.- Plug your nose and ears then swallow 20 times as fast as possible.
- If you notice a friend has a case of hiccups, it is believed that your can ’scare’ them away. Sneak up on them and give ‘em a good jolt (Be careful though ;)). What? They don’t have hiccups? Do it anyway!
- Relax, sit still and breathe in deep, slow, rhythmic breaths expanding and contracting your lungs completely.
- Distract yourself. Sing a song, go over your 7 times tables (7 x 1 = 7, 7 x 2 = 14, etc) until the hiccups are gone,
- Exhale completely and hold your breath for as long as possible.
- Squawk like a chicken while flapping your arms and bobbing your head as if you were pecking at something. Bugawk!
- Laugh. Think of something funny, or do something funny - see above.
- Eat a tablespoon of peanut butter.
- Stand on your head and drink small gulps of water from a sports bottle.
- Exaggerate your hiccups by inhaling right as you hiccup - this will result in a long and loud “huuuaaagggghhh” that’ll either be funny or embarrassing depending on your environment, but after 2-4 of these the hiccups should be gone.
- Take a shot of lemon juice.
- Let a teaspoon of sugar dissolve under your tongue.
- Think of the ugliest person you’ve ever seen. Now picture them naked, rolling naked down a hill or riding a bike and slathered in A-1 steak sauce.
- Eat some pickles.
- Think the alphabet backwards as fast as you can.
- Close your eyes, relax, still your mind and concentrate on nothingness until they’re gone.
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3. Offsite Hiccup Resources
- The Straight Dope - What are hiccups and why do we have them?
- Tons of hiccup cures - Seriously, there’s gotta be hundreds here.
concentrate on the feeling of the hiccup comming up your throat then try and say out loud when your next hiccup is comming.
first thing is to calm down you can never get rid of them when your are very ticked off about them.then while you are getting calmed down get some chewing gum and enjoy that..it took me i think 15 minutes,but it is diffrent for everyone.(good luck!!!!!) and ROLL TIDE !!LOL.
I read this and wow..Mine are all gone. Thank you. It can be just such a pain and very distracting but I am glad there gone for now..Thanks..
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I have found that the best way to get rid of hiccups is to try to hiccup in between hiccups. Since it is impossible to hiccup voluntarily, you will not have hicccups anymore!
Just read about hiccups it really works and it gets yo mind off of it a lil
drink several cups of water 1 or 2 what ever you like
I normally eat a spoonful of peanut butter.
I got bored to peanut butter though, so I tried the one that says to eat a pickle and that worked.
I get the Hiccups a lot and guess what the Peanut Butter the Drinking and having the sugar works the best even though its a little unhealthy.
i usually hold my breath for as long as i possibly can during this process swallow once or twice and there gone everytime
Ok, so you know how if you put your finger down your throat you get the urge to throw up? So it’s like that, you gurgle some water and lean your head far back, you’ll get the feeling to hurl but you should only spit up a bit. If you do that a few times, the hiccups should go away. It totally worked for me and I did it by accident!