Question

What are some effective methods to get rid of hiccups?

Answer 1

Drink water while holding your nose! It worked for me!

Answer 2

try to swallow your toungue.

Answer 3

Try a teaspoon of sugar.

Answer 4

drink water. sugar cube. hold ur breath. hav sum1 scare u

Answer 5

Drink two pints of water. Slowly.

Answer 6

Hold your breathe for 20 seconds, drink water, get scared... pick one

Answer 7

I know this sounds silly but it really does work.... . have someone keep repeating in a goofy way that they will give you a dollar if you hiccup again.. I always start laughing and they stop!

Answer 8

THIS REALLY WORKS. When you get the hiccups.. tell your self, ok hiccup now... and keep thinking to yourself, HICCUP.. HICCUP... kinda like your brain telling you to hiccup over and over again, and try to hiccup and before you know it, you just can't hiccup and they are gone! PRESSURE YOURSELF TO HICCUP! It so works and I learned that from my teacher in highschool because he hated when we wanted a drink a water because we had hiccups and he would constantly say "HICCUP, HICCUP, Prove to me you have the hiccups and I will let you go get water, HICCUP, COME ON, HICCUP" and sure enough, we never could go get that sip of water! LOL

Answer 9

They're likely caused by an idiosyncracy of the innervation of the diaphragm by the vagus nerve. Although you'll hear a million home remedies, I find keeping the diaphragm immobile for 20 full seconds works best. I do the following: take several quick deep breaths to hyperventilate then hold your breath for a full 20 seconds (use a watch) while bearing down like you're having a bowel movement. You'll feel your diaphragm contract. If you hiccup during the process, you have to start over.

Answer 10

When I get the hiccups, I usually don't talk for a while and do something else until they go away so I don't think about them.