hiccups help

[smiley21]

what do you do for hiccups that you have had for the last two hours?!


they will not go away. i have tried everything! they go away then come back

[33girl]

Hold your hands over your ears and swallow repeatedly. Or, have someone else hold their hands over your ears while you drink a glass of water.

[Rudey]

Drink something carbonated.

-Rudey

[BirthaBlue4]

Well, the method I use, my mother tells me is crap, because its kinda silly, but I SWEAR IT WORKS EVERYTIME!!!

*I saw this on Sesame Street years ago*

You have to drink water with your fingers in your ears. Don't ask me why it works but it does. You just stick your first fingers in your ears, and then pick up the cup with the rest of your fingers, then drink down as much as you can without taking a breath, and if you have to breath, do it quickly through your nose, but don't interrupt the flow of the water. I do it everytime, and it's NEVER failed, and they were gone away.

Seeing as how a hiccup is a muscle spasm, I dunno WHY this works lol.

[adpialumcsuc]

I don't have a suggestion for you but I get the hiccups all the time so these solutions may come in handy

[madmax]

Guraranteed to work. Eat a couple of tablespoons of peanut butter. Make sure it coats the back of your throat.

I usually just breathe very deeply and regularly for about a minute, and they generally go away.

Otherwise, the "home remedy" that I've always heard is to gargle a glass of salt water. Sounds pretty gross to me, but it depends how desperate you are!

[aabby757]

What helps me is eating a sugar packet.

[smiley21]

After two and half hours, they went away. it was awful and just painful.

[SSS1365]

Glad they're finally gone

I usually hold my breath and drink water. It usually works, but sometimes it doesn't. The thing is, if you stop thinking about them they'll go away. That's the real reason all these "remedies" work for people... they get you to stop thinking about the hiccups!

[ZTAngel]

I get hiccups periodically through out the day. It's weird. I'll get the hiccups in the morning and they'll stop after 20 minutes. Around lunch time, I'll get them again. It'll repeat itself through out the day.
I've tried every method to get them to stop. The one thing that works is just holding my breath and just telling myself, "I will not hiccup. This will stop now." Power of the mind or some form of meditation...I don't know. But, it seems to work about 60% of the time.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Thu Jul 1, 7:30 AM ET

NEW ORLEANS - After seven months of constant, bark-like hiccups, a first-of-its-kind operation has returned normal life to a 50-year-old Texas man. Shane Shafer's speech is now a hoarse whisper — a side effect of the electronic device that cured him, one generally used to treat epilepsy and recently approved for major depression.

But for the first time since November, he can eat. He can sleep. He no longer has to make himself gag to make the hiccups stop. He can talk without a bark-like hiccup every three to four seconds.

Rest of article here: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ccup_operation

[smiley21]

i saw a report on a hiccups webpage that the longest recorded hiccups last for 6 decades. yeah right