How can I get rid of the hiccups?!
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Place a tablespoon of sugar in mouth and suck slowly. In most cases, it is a sure remedy. For the authors of this web site, it works in more than 90% times.
Block both ears aand drink 6 ounces water without stopping to breathe. It works in more than 90% times
Hold your breath as long as possible, and let it go out. The lungs expand and push down on the diaphragm, stopping hiccups immediately.
Take a deep breathe through your mouth, lean forward and push down your stomach. Hold in that position as long as you can and then slowly exhale the air through your mouth.
Mix 2 tsp common salt in a cup of plain yogurt (curd, yoghurt) and eat. In most cases, it is a good remedy.
Boil 1/2 tsp of cardamom fresh powder in 2 cup water till about 1 cup water remains, Sieve it and drink a glassful of this warm water.
For recurring hiccups, suck small pieces of fresh ginger.
Plug your ears with your fingers and drink something with a straw.
Lay on your back.
Put a paper bag over your mouth and nose and breathe several times.
For some eating a spoonful of peanut butter stops hiccups immediately. It can work for children also.
Pull your tongue out of your mouth as far as you can and hold it for a couple of seconds.
Plug your ears and nose and drink water.
Sing or laugh as loud as you can.
Tickle your uvula (the piece of skin that hangs down deep inside in your mouth) with a wrapped straw.
Enage yourself in talking with somebody and do not care about hiccups. The hiccups will stop in five minutes.
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Try water, sugar or get engaged with someone in some discussion
1) breathe in as much as you can and hold your breath until that funny feeling in your diaphragm goes away
2) drink water from the wrong side of the glass - i.e. you have to sort of bend over it and drink from the side opposite your mouth. If this doesn't work (usually does), then
3) get someone to press the reflexology pressure points in the centre of your palm with their thumbs. If you have the hiccups there is usually a sore point and they need to press this.
swallow a teaspoon of dry sugar and then try not to swallow for as long as you can this works almost every time
A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR HELPS THE MEDICINE GO DOWN.. ALSO STOPS THE HICCUPS FOR MY FAMILY, SOMETIMES A PEPPERMINT CANDY (THE RED & WHITE, FLAT, ROUND ONES SEEM TO BE THE BEST) WORKS ALSO. GOOD LUCK.
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I learned this trick from a bartender: Coat a lemon wedge in sugar and dash with bitters and suck on it. It worked immediately for me.
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