Hiccups/Hiccup cures

RoseStick

I have 3 episodes of hiccups today. It feels as if my chest is gone into some sort of a spasm. It feels heavy. The worst part is that I was planning in enjoying some drinks but it prevented me from having drinks. The hiccups felt so heavy and I thumbed my chest because that was the only thing that provided some relief.

Does anyone have any hiccup cures that works?

beertons

A belt of a hurl cures everything.

Quantum Erasure

Drink from the wrong side of a cup...

Wilberto

Taking a deep breath and holding it for about 10 seconds usually does the trick for me.

Come to think of it, I haven't had the hiccups in ages!

Gregor Samsa

Very best cure is to snog someone. Seriously it works.

Alternatively, I remember in college having hiccups and a mate off mine doing this trick. He took out a fiver and made a big deal of having the fiver, and said that if I hiccuped one more time, I could keep it. Hiccups went straight away. I've done it myself a couple of times to my kids, and it's worked. The secret is to really make a big deal of the money and how they're going to get it if they hiccup, work them up into the idea of getting it. Obviously you can't do it to yourself, and I'm not sure if it works once you know the trick.

RoseStick

Wilberto wrote: »

Taking a deep breath and holding it for about 10 seconds usually does the trick for me.

Come to think of it, I haven't had the hiccups in ages!

You will probably get a dose of them tomorrow. I said something similar recently where it was ages since I last got sick and then I got sick. Not a covid sickness but a bacterial infection. I'm nearly 2 weeks on medicines and it's clearly up now, thank goodness but christ it was tough for a while.

AMKC

Drink water. That one always works for me. You need to be drinking as you hiccup and it stops it.
Have someone frighten you is another that works for some.

Ice Storm

A spoon of sugar. I tried it a few years ago and it works.

They usually come back a few hours later, but that happens anyway.

EmmetSpiceland

Finger up the butt.

RobertKK

Hold your breath and swallow three times.

Worked for me a couple of weeks back.

turbostan

Hold your breath and count to a million

Drink a thimble of vinegar. Apparently it shocks the vagus nerve, which is the nerve that started the whole thing in the first place. Works every time.

uch

beertons wrote: »

A belt of a hurl cures everything.

The cure for all life's Ill's

uch

beertons wrote: »

A belt of a hurl cures everything.

Also the cure for Bold Children and narky neighbours

Cee-Jay-Cee

My daughter gets hiccups 2 or 3 times most days. The cure for her is to drink juice and swallow hard while I pull down on her ears. 3 mouthfuls usually does the trick. It works 9 times times out of ten but the very odd time she might have to drink 6 or 7 mouthfuls to get rid of them.

New Home

I find that lightly pressing the tip of the nose upwards and to the right works. I'm not sure how or why.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

My daughter gets hiccups 2 or 3 times most days. The cure for her is to drink juice and swallow hard while I pull down on her ears.

I don't doubt that this works but how — how — did you discover it??

Or how did the people who told you this discover it?

"Pull hard on her ears, Marjorie. Quick, while she's on the juice. I don't know, but I have a hunch"

Mr. CooL ICE

I fill my mouth with water, sit and put my head between my knees, then swallow.

Widdensushi

When (nearly) all above have failed,eating a slice of lemon doused in tobasco sauce has worked well for me.

stoneill

You have to break the spasm cycle, so take in a deep breath, really fill your lungs to push down your diaphragm and try hold it for longer than the gaps between hiccups.

Drinking a large glass of water quickly can be a cure for a lot people.

I heard pulling on your tongue is a cure, never tried it nor want to.

Pauliedragon

I get them maybe once every couple of weeks. I find if I fill my lungs with deepest breath possible and hold it as long as I can it usually works. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 attempts though.

Lesalare

Pauliedragon wrote: »

I get them maybe once every couple of weeks. I find if I fill my lungs with deepest breath possible and hold it as long as I can it usually works. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 attempts though.

I do this too. It takes a few goes as you say, but it works.

I find too if you can get someone to give you a fright, this stops the hiccups almost immediately.

EmmetSpiceland

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Drink a thimble of vinegar. Apparently it shocks the vagus nerve, which is the nerve that started the whole thing in the first place. Works every time.

And if you’re not a woman?

corner of hells

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Finger up the butt.

Do you do it to yourself or get someone to do it to you ?

Its not for me and im not asking for a friend either.

corner of hells

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Finger up the butt.

Do you do it to yourself or get someone to do it to you ?

Its not for me and im not asking for a friend either.

EmmetSpiceland

corner of hells wrote: »

Do you do it to yourself or get someone to do it to you ?

Its not for me and im not asking for a friend either.

I’m not sure but I would assume that both “methods” work. From what I’ve been told, it is the only guaranteed way to stop them. But the real question is whether it would be worth it or not?

Personally, I always just stick with the 3 big gulps of air in, hold as long as you can and then release. Repeat if necessary. Leave the “fingering” to the pros.

I’ve also heard tell that if a big dog attacks you and locks onto your arm, or leg, that a finger inserted into the dog’s rectum will cause it to freeze and unlock its jaw. I’m fairly confident this is an “old wives tale” but it might be worth a shot if you’re all out of options.

Could well leave you open to a ‘death by misadventure’ ruling in the coroner’s report, though. Best look before you leap.

Leg End Reject

Imagine being found dead with a digit up a dog's bum? Just as well you wouldn't have to live with the shame.

Not infrequently I get hiccups. I have given up trying to stop them, they never last long. So I play with them and make them really loud. Yawning while hiccuping makes the most spectacular sounds. Hiccuping into hollow containers resounds nicely too. Hiccuping close to unsuspecting peoples ears amuses me, if not them.
I knew a girl in my class in school who got hiccups that would not stop. They went on for over a year. It was not funny at all. She was left a wreck in the end. Perhaps this sad memory leads me to over compensate with gratuitous hiccuping feats.

is_that_so

Ice Storm wrote: »

A spoon of sugar. I tried it a few years ago and it works.

They usually come back a few hours later, but that happens anyway.

Yeah, it does indeed, my go-to choice. Never had them back after though. Had to restrain someone once to prove it! Violent hiccups of nearly a hour gone!

NewbridgeIR

I remember reading about this guy in the Guinness Book of Records 1981 edition which I got for Christmas 1980.

Seems he went on for another 10 years.

Beware when slaughtering hogs.

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/07/charles-osborne-had-the-hiccups-for-68-years-from-1922-to-1990/

odyssey06

Chew some spearmint gum preferably a stick of gum