This post is dedicated to Nat since she gets hiccups often. She tries to get rid of her hiccups by drinking a glass of water while holding her nose closed. Here is the right way to do it:
1. Swallow 1 tsp. white table sugar, dry. A study found that this stopped hiccups immediately in 19 out of 20 people. Repeat up to three more times at 2-minute intervals if necessary.
2. Gulp down a glass of water if the sugar doesn’t work.
3. Eat a piece of dry bread slowly.
4. Breathe in and out of a paper bag. Do not use a plastic bag under any circumstances, and don’t do this longer than 1 minute.
5. Gargle with water (see ‘How to Gargle’).
6. Repeat the above steps until your hiccups stop.
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20 replies on “How to Get Rid of Hiccups”
The best way to get rid of hiccups is eat a teaspoon of peanut butter.
Believe me, I get hiccups on a regular basis and peanut butter works all the time..
Stuff you should be downloading:
get lost (couldn’t resist)
Entourage Seasons 1&2 (HBO)
Weeds (Showtime Series)
well its easier to find a pack of sugar at a restaurant table i think thats the biggest advantage of sugar.
Lost: I just watched the first episode of season 1 yesterday, looks really fucking cool.
Entourage: seems like a good show. I really like Jeremy Piven. gonna download it.
Weeds: Just checked IMDB and it looks really cool, this is showing on showtime?? need to tivo it..
If I remember right from years and years of choral ensemble hiccups are a spasam of the diaphragm. So, the sugar, peanut butter and water methods help some because they force you to breathe through your nose which encourages long deep slow breaths, unlike mouth breathing. We were encouraged to breath in (mouth or nose, doesn’t matter) sssslllooowwwlllyyy, hold it as long as we can and then release our breath very very very slowly. One or two of those should do it… it just helps relax and reset the diaphragm. Of course, any excuse to eat a packet of dry sugar… hell, take it!
Weeds is on Showtime, the American Cable company (don’t know if they’re tied up with the Kuwaiti one).
Entourage is honestly one of the best shows I’ve seen in a long time. I rank it as highly as Arrested Development (totally different shows but both are very good). If you like Jeremy Piven, you’re going to love him after this..
Lost is the best network TV series out there.. Cliff Hangers, puzzles, plot lines – I’m at episode 7 season 2 and I’m ready to kill for episode 8. Just pay close attention to every episode, cause theres all sorts of little hints and links in so many episodes. really cool..
Now if you want to talk music, then that’s a whole different ballgame..
Hey i thought the topic was on nats hiccups.. ok guys this may sound a bit wierd .. but .. the best way to cure hiccups .. and beleive me .. it is .. is to scare the shit out of the person.. or just surprising him/her in someway .. trust me .. it works and its fun too.. (Also .. you can try this on your boss and get away with it)
is there a website that shows u like ways to scare people.
2 weeks ago an employee at work scared the shit out of me for no reason.
i went to talk to the creative director for like 5 minutes, when i came back to my desk i pulled out my chair when suddenly a hand grabs me from under the table. it didnt really hit me what was going on but then suddenly i saw someone climb out from under my desk and i fucking freaked out like what the fuck is that… i had watched too many zombie movies and seeing him come out from under the desk made me jump.
turned out my friend hid under the table and waited for me to come to my desk, pretty smart.
Hey Mark.. i dont know if there is a website on stuff like this .. but i am sure if you can find a picture of president bush smiling … that would pretty much do the trick …
damn add
Water works quite nicely with my baby, lol!
Ok.. don’t know any of you personally. However, at 5:30 this morning my son woke me up wanting a glass of water, fine, no biggie.. only then I had a case of the hiccups. It is now going on 6:20am and they are finally gone.. Why? You ask? Because I did the slow breathing in and out of my nose.. Yes.. the holding breath, drinking water and the sugar ones did not work. Atleast not this time.. so thank you to the wonderful person who told us about our diaphragms!! yay!
i love it when i get hiccups does any1 else????
record emm if u do
u ppl are crazy sitting tyher talking bout hiccups no life!!!
stand o ur head wit panut butter in ur mouth and squack like a chicken and then scream as if u were dying the take salt throw it over ur right sholder and laugh like ur an evil villan
I hav advice, eat a spoonfull of peanut buter, or neutella or ne thing thick nd stiky and your hiccups go away, and it really does work!! =]
The solution to hiccups, according to Newton’s Apple, is to drink a glass of water from the back of the glass.
It looks funny, but it does work every time. To do this successfully, you basically bend over with the glass of water tipped against your upper lip. The water from the glass actually runs down the roof of your mouth and you swallow. It’s basically like drinking a glass of water while standing on your head.
This works because by hunching over you are compressing your stomach – pushing the air pocket to the top of your stomach – and by drinking the water thusly, you replace the air in your stomach with the water.
If one glass doesn’t work for some reason, two glasses never fails.
i had hiccupz in the aftrnoon and ii gwt hiccupz agen in the evening….THEY WOULDN’T STOP AT ALL!! ii tried the sugar…water..relaxing breathing slowly…and then i tried drinkiin 7 dropz awf water…iit wurkd YAY…buh then the hiccupz cym agen ii tried dah water EVERYTHING…and den i held my breath foh 20 SECz…ppl say you should hold it 4 10sec buh wat the hell? it never works…!!
So basically the point is…there is no right method….because water stoppd my hiccupz 1st but the 2nd time it DIDN’T work…so my advice 2 all the *hiccupers* is that try EVERYTHING, you never know what would actually work.
Wow. I’ve had hiccups all day and now I’m finally cured.
I usually ask people the question “When was the last time you saw a white horse?” And it works… If they dont know what the question is for. But I can’t help my own hiccups.
I downed half my sugar and nothing happened… But the breathing worked. Which is pretty awesome.
THANKS
i always drink water and then pull down my earlobe and it always works except for now…i have them and i CAN not get rid of them.=[
I tried to drink water up side down – no water and the hiccups just keep going. I work in a high end clothing store – so it is embarassing bending over in a nice pants suit trying to get rid of the hiccups. Even when I have my mouth closed i make a humf noise which everyone can hear. I get the hiccups a lot which being in your late 30’s sucks.
Hey there,
I just tried the sugar method and it actually worked! Thank you so much 🙂
I usually don’t look stuff like this was my last resort due to having hiccups since 3am till just now (When I tried your method) Believe me, I tried almost everything else!
Once again,
Thank you!