Hiccup cure

[Wanda Van Winkle]

Do you have a hiccup cure?

[Paula Karr]

This one works -- I even walk up to strangers in public who have the hiccups and they are amazed.


Relax.
Exhale -- completely EMPTY your lungs.
With your lungs completely empty, count slowly to 10. While you are counting, visualize your diaphragm muscle, thinking of it as completely relaxed.
Your hiccups should now be gone.


Second cure, which is also pretty successful. Swallow a teaspoonful of plain old white sugar.

Let us know if either of these -- or something else -- works!

Paula

[Dana Grant]

Every time I've used a teaspoon of sugar my hiccups are cured.

It works!!!

[Hans Deventer]

Do you have a hiccup cure?

My father once scared my mother all of a sudden. It helped, but the cure was worse than the disease. He's never done that again.

[Zarina Simpson]

A glass of Guiness Stout. If they return, repeat the procedure. Trust me, they will go away.

[Roland Hearn]

The method I use has never failed, the least successful occurrence it gave the sufferer only about two hours respite but that was an extreme case, apart from that I have never seen it not work. Take a glass of water, have someone hold your ears so that they are air tight, that is place the open hand across the ear canal, and drink the entire glass of water without stopping. It has something to do with the equalizing of pressure.

[Susan Unger]

Do you have a hiccup cure?

I just drink lots of water.

[Mike Killingsworth]

My father once scared my mother all of a sudden. It helped, but the cure was worse than the disease. He's never done that again.





I had this did to me by an aunt when I was 8 or 9 years old and have never forgotton it. It cured my hiccups but she scared me so bad I thought my heart was going to beat out of my chest.

[Sheya Stephens]

I have 2 cures:

1- Have a glass of water, and lay a paper towel over the top of the glass and drink the water through the paper towel. My daughter brought this 'cure' home and it actually works.

2- This just works for my husband's hiccups: I tell him I'm pregnant and his hiccups go away immediately. It truly scares the hiccups right away.:basic05

[BobHunt]

Funny, you all talking about this made me think of the first time as a child I actually got the wind knocked out of me when I fell off the swing....I thought I was dying! I could NOT catch my breath.

[Laurie Florence]

This works every time for me.

1. Fill a cup with water.

2. With the cup in your hand, bend over.

3. Drink the water from the further side of the rim of the cup.

[Alisa Stoll]

I find fully concentrating on something else works well. When my kids had them I would ask things like where did we sit in church last week? What did the pastor preach about? Who sat in front of us? Usually that was sufficient for them to be gone.

Alisa

[Katelynn Scott]

I do the bend over and drink out of the cup backwards thing too - works well!

[Kathy O'Connor]

My grandson had a terrible case of the hiccups when he was about three months old. Seeing they were making him quite uncomfortable, I dipped the tip of his pacifier in some sugar. It work immediately!!! He then went back to being his adorable little self.:basic02

[Paul Whitaker]

Breathe into a paper sack - blow in and out for a short period of time. Hold the scrunched-in opening of the sack over your mouth.
Works for me.