how do you stop hiccups?!


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Eat a teaspoon of sugar but do not swallow it. Put it in your mouth then drink a glass of water without breathing.

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drink alot of plain water

i am serious. take a drink of water and hold it in your mouth, take your thumbs and plug your ears, and your pinkies and pinch your nose. look up and swallow your mouthful of water. volia!! works for me and my kids

You can try a number of things. Try holding your breath for 10 seconds, you can drink 1 full cup of water. I know there are more ways but I can't think of them wright now.

hold u're breath

Maraschino cherries (like the ones they put in Shirley Temples or on Sundaes)

bend over, while drinking water and plugging your ears. works everytime for me.
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hold your two index fingers out in front of you, getting them as close as possible without letting them touch. you will be concentrating so hard on not letting your fingers touch that your hiccups will subside.

thorazine (prescription drug)

death works too

Notice how often you swallow. Try making tally marks on a piece of paper while you're watching a TV show, for example. Most of us swallow every few seconds. Even when we're nowhere near food or something to drink, we're gulping away. Your mouth is continuously producing saliva, and it has to end up somewhere.

Your nerve fibers have produced too many charged calcium ions near the muscles of your glottis and your diaphragm. They spasm; your brain triggers your nervous system to send a correcting signal, but it's too late or not quite of the right strength, and you hiccup again. Often there's an imbalance that is like a resonance. The signals build up and let go at regular intervals, like a sign flapping in a breeze.

The way to stop the hiccups seems to be to provide a new clear signal to your body--either a signal for swallowing or breathing. That's why for some people, it helps to hold a breath. For others, swallowing several sips of water in succession does the trick. You have to clear or overwhelm the confusing diaphragm-glottal-epiglottal noise. You can do it. Just swallow; I mean, hold your breath. Hiccup--I mean .
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