What is your secret cure for the hiccups?

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My cure is to hold my breath for as long as possible. It works a solid 13% of the time.

zeitgeist057 · Accepted Answer

I have a very unique, yet scientifically sound cure. I have never seen or heard of anyone using it except those people I have specifically instructed. It works more than 50% of the time, and if it doesn't work in the first 10-20 seconds attempt, continuing on subsequent attempts almost always cures the hiccups (80% or greater success rate).

First, I want to stress that this method takes some body awareness and control, as you have to simultaneously relax some parts of your body, while contracting others.

Second, I want to explain the pathophysiology of hiccups. It is an air imbalance associated with the diaphragm, which is a muscle that sits as a layer separating your torso into two sections: top is with the heart and lungs, bottom with the stomach and intestinal viscera. The contracture and relaxation of the diaphragm is how we breath. Hiccups happen when there is an imbalance or "an air bubble" in this area, and the diaphragm is trying to restore balance through involuntary contractions, aka "hiccups".

What is your secret cure for the hiccups?

Now, for the hiccup removal method. Our goal is to dislodge that air bubble, shake up the diaphragm, allow it to get back into balance. So we are going to alternately relax and contract that muscle in a random fashion. This will be supplemented by bouncing/shaking our body in a way that really shakes that diaphragm even when it is in the relaxed state. Imagine your body like a loosey goosey floppy Gumby doll, but you also want to be bouncing up and down using your calf muscles mostly. Also, very important, watch your balance! Try to make your hopping up and down random, not rhythmic. Have small hops, with a random large hop, make it a lot of variety.

Meanwhile, while your body is hopping up and down, simultaneously we are going to be working that diaphragm. The best way I know to do this is to make noises. Sudden barks, gurgling, a low moan, again we are going for variety. Exclamations contract the diaphragm, so don't just yell and make noise constantly, vary the volume, pitch, etc. If you've been in choir, go staccatissimo, leggiero, animato, lento a presto (fortepiano), and be sure to RELAX in between. Variety is the name of the game.

I will also note this makes you quite a silly spectacle. I even recommend doing some of your hopping on a single foot if you can manage the balance, as it adds to the variety. You will be making all sorts of weird noises, flopping and hopping about. I stress it is not the spectacle-making that is key to making this technique work, it is the effect on the diaphragm that should be your focus.

In the end, you should have no hiccups.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Accepted Answer

Years ago my cousin used to say stick my thumbs in my ears and forefingers holding my nostrils shut and she claimed that took hiccups away but most of the time they are caused by us eating too fast, it just happened to me not too long ago and I drank water I was eating really fast.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

I stand up, bend over and drink some water upside down.
You can swallow a teaspoon of dry white sugar and try to swallow the whole thing at one time. No chewing or or moving it around in your mouth. Just take the spoon of sugar and swallow it. Something about the dryness of the sugar going down seems to stop them.

AmandaYVR · Accepted Answer

The upside down drinking water from the opposite side of the glass... slowly, lol... is the only thing that has ever sometimes worked for me.

WhiteSteve · Answer

This method hasn’t failed me yet….

-Stand with your back against a wall with a full (to the brim) glass of water
-Bend at the waist so your body is at a 90-degree angle
-Take a deep breath and hold it in
-While holding your breath, slowly begin standing up straight again while simultaneously chugging the water. This should take 5-10 seconds, to give you an idea of how slowly to do it.

I have yet to see this fail👍

HawkPerception · Answer

This is a literal hack and while it may sound a little off putting, I can attest its results.

Take a deep breath without puffing your cheeks. Gather up some saliva in your mouth and swallow. Do that twice, while holding your breath, then wait another 5 seconds. By the time you exhale, they should be gone.

Apulu_Imback · Answer

Well whenever I have hiccups my mom's trick is

"PaNi PeEle bEta!" (Drink water my child *in hindi*)

I don't know any other trick. Drinking water works till some extent only if you drink like a full bottle at once which is tiresome.

Ghen30 · Answer

Peanut butter. It always works for me. Grab you a big spoonful of peanut butter and put it in your mouth. Spoon and all and wait. The hiccups will subside.

CrazyGirl2 · Answer

Take a deep breath, the deepest you possibly can, and hold it for as long as you can.  While holding your breath, drink a glass of water, or as much as you can.  This ALWAYS cures my hiccups

Ez-Bri-Z · Answer

Echoing the spoonful of sugar being the go to cure for me. It has always worked for me and is much more pleasant than holding your breath forever lol

NZGirl07 · Answer

Drink a glass of water while pinching your nose shut until you can't breathe, then when you gasp for air the hiccups will be gone! Works everytime.

Gollum · Answer

There exist pressure points that will IMMEDIATELY RELIEVE any hiccup. This is hard to explain without visuals but I'll try.

Sit down and put your hands on your knees. With your thumbs feel the inner sides of your knees. If you probe you'll notice a small temple. Place your tumbs below them and push softly. Your hiccup will stop almost immediately.

Pudsmucker · Answer

I've also heard that drinking glass water and scaring a person. I have tried them all. I wish they would work. Makes you feel embarrassed when you're in the middle of a meeting and you start having hiccups

purplepoppy · Answer

This one's really effective but you need a friend to help

Little_Bumblebee · Answer

Hold your nose while drinking something (preferably water).  Works every time.

TrueConfection · Answer

Holding my breath works, but one time my sister literally scared the hiccups out of me.

Agape93 · Answer

Take a breath and hold it for 10 seconds, and without exhaling, Take a bit more air in and hold it agaub for 10 seconds, and do it again. Then slowly release the air.

DonkeyDan · Answer

Pinch my nose and drink a full pint glass of water, then burp afterwards, works everytime, but not without the burp for some reason.

HighlyVolatile · Answer

I just tell people I'm about to hiccup. Then it's like wait for it, wait for it. Then I don't hiccup. I do later but not at the time I planned on it.

IveGotNoName · Answer

However did you get to 13%? lol. I do the same if anything, usually I just wait it out.

StrawberryShake · Answer

Breath in as much as I can and hold it for 5 seconds, then blow out all the air completely until I literally can't anymore for 5 seconds, repeat 3 times and voila, hiccups are gone.

sirderpsalot123 · Answer

Don't have one. My hiccups are always violent and painful. I have had long-term hiccups that lasted for several days. Not fun.

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

I hold my breath for 3 or 4 minutes so far it has worked 90% of the time. The longer I can hold it the better odds of it working.

SaoirseS · Answer

I drink a glass of water, the overwhelming majority of the time that works. It’s rare that I get hiccups though.

Kayla45 · Answer

My momma and papa always told me if you slowly drink water it helps, apparently pure organic 100% honey does too. Interestingly enough honey also helps with headaches. :)

loveslongnails · Answer

Stick your finger down your throat till you gag really hard.

Andres77 · Answer

Don't do this while driving! Hyperventilating extra deep breaths, then hold my breath for as long as I can, then do it again.  Almost always works. You'll get lightheaded so be sitting or lying down.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I'll take a fairly deep breath and then hold my mouth shut tight and try to force a burp or air bubble out of my stomach up to my mouth. That, usually, gets rid of them.

GrantArmstrong · Answer

Same except if that doesn't work I breathe in as much as I can, hold it as long as I can, then breathe out all the way and hold that as long as I can. I haven't had hiccups in years but that always worked when I did.

NathanDavis · Answer

same as trolls... lol I ignore them till they go away... will work way sooner than does later

Bricealan · Answer

Seems to work every time: Sucking in my diaphragm, holding my breath and trying to swallow 10 times without stopping

Moosik · Answer

This is also my method hold breath and fight urge to hiccup of you can make it passed first urge it usually does the trick.

crossdressingrihno · Answer

My super amazing secret makes hiccups almost never happen

It's called severe breathing issues

It works wonders with hiccups because for you to do hiccups you first need to have lungs that are capable of doing hiccups which mine aren't

connie9888 · Answer

I usually just search up “horror movie jump scares” on YouTube and then they go away after a scare 😂

exitseven · Answer

I just drink a glass of water. It probably doesn;t do much but it is good to stay hydrated while you hiccup.

silkjames · Answer

I haven't got hiccups for Soo long but if I did I breathe in hard then just hold my breath or drink a whole bottle of water!

oliver4love · Answer

I drink a glass of water and always my hiccups stopped immediately..

AviatorTom · Answer

It's not a secret. I do what you do. Or, I just let things go... they eventually stop.

Anonymous · Answer

I have an over active diaphragm and get hiccups all the time. I take a mouth full of water and keep it in mouth slowly swallowing little bits every few seconds and the hiccups stop every time.

douride2 · Answer

I tried them all. Nothing seems to work for me. I just have to ride them out till they quit on their own.

ETEQdotCOM · Answer

drink half a glass of water, don't swollow. then hold the half empty glass over your head and look at it when and then swallow the water. Repeat a few times if necessary. I know it sounds weird but it works.

sheikalana · Answer

I haven't found it but I just try my best not to laugh as if gets worse when I laugh.

DaveToo · Answer

drinking up to 3 quarts of water while holding my breath

bowenw · Answer

Drink 10 swallows of water without stopping. It works for me every time.

talltom94 · Answer

Hold my breath and swallow 3 times, if it doesn't work the first time then it always works the second 🤷‍♂️

HaveNoName · Answer

Hold your breath and look up extending your neck as much as you can. Stay in that position as long as you can hold breathing.

Whatever2929292 · Answer

THANKS FOR THE FOLLOW!!!  I suffer them out more often then not... Once they are over that is really nice

Danny_dan92 · Answer

Eat pussy… jk. Hold my breath until it stops

skyeee_ · Answer

same cure as yours, lol. or i just drink too much water

dolemite89 · Answer

i hold my breath and swallow three times it sounds easy but it’s actually kinda hard but it always works

ering987 · Answer

my boyfriend told me deepthroating but I am skeptical

Kelly6 · Answer

Spoon on sugar and Try to keep in mouth as long as can

Pete671 · Answer

Drink a glass of water from the opposite side of the glass,,,

Selena1987 · Answer

Eat some thing sweet like a chocolate, cookie or candy. It immediately stops your hiccups

shortster · Answer

I just force myself to stop hiccuping. It works over 99.99% of the time for me.

nawtee_me · Answer

Drink water until you stop or drown, one or the other…. lol

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

Inhale as much as I can, hold it and swallow saliva like 3-5 time.

Diana79 · Answer

Drink Water or Hold My Breath and don’t eat to fast.

CubaPirate · Answer

Holding my breath until I'm physically sick. A bit drastic but works for me most of the time

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

9mm to back off the head.

IsoUser · Answer

Our little secret is I actually always make her cum twice inside my hot wet mouth

Anonymous · Answer

A spoonful of sugar works for me 95% of the time.

dorksided1 · Answer

trying to burp the trapped air out

DaySpring · Answer

Sing or breath deep into the diaphragm.

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