Hiccups

[Sluggo]

Anybody know any good or unusual cures?

One that works for me is to imagine the biggest yawn you have ever done and try to blow that out of the water; if you are not in that mindset it will not work. For me this works around 75% of the time.

P.S. Sorry if I made you guys yawn this isn't a joke it really works.

[frinkprof]

[surferguy]

swallow a teaspoon of dry sugar - it is my remedy. 98% of the time it works everytime.

[Yeah_Baby]

I change the channel.

[kirant]

Breathing in a paper bag DOES actually work.

[czure32]

[North East Goon]

Do what I do. Ride it out and curse your life for the 20 minutes or so it's happening!

[LChoy]

Gulping water usually does the trick for me
Hiccups are caused by the difference in timing between your diaphragm and lungs. By swallowing/holding your breath/etc, you involuntarily stop breathing momentarily and the timing correct itself. Most of the time that is

[Redliner]

x2 for gulping water.

[CaptainCrunch]

good swift kick in the nards.

Then the next question is how do you stop crying like a girl.

[red sky]

Try drinking upside down. Just sip some water and hold it in your mouth and bend down with the crown of your head facing the ground and swallow. Repeat 3 or 4 times.

[Da_Chief]

inhale and hold your breath as long as you can and exhale, should be gone.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

my grade 6 teacher would tell us to hold our breath for 20 minutes.

If we could do that we would no longer have the hiccups, we'd be dead mind you but no hiccups

[Roof-Daddy]

Originally Posted by Da_Chief

inhale and hold your breath as long as you can and exhale, should be gone.

This.

Works every single time for me. I usually count and get to 30-40 before exhaling.

[zukes]

If someone has the hiccups, get right in their face and yell at them, asking why they have hiccups and keep going and being obnoxious about it. They will get confused and the hiccups shoudl go away. My wife's boss did that to her and it worked really well.

[Frequitude]

Boo!

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

my grade 6 teacher would tell us to hold our breath for 20 minutes.

If we could do that we would no longer have the hiccups, we'd be dead mind you but no hiccups

At least it would get you guys to be quiet. Which is I'm sure what your teacher was really after.

[dissentowner]

Start doing multiple lines of blow, you won't want the blow to go to waste so you will stop. Wait...maybe that was sneezing.....

[Tron_fdc]

I think it was last year when I went over a week with hiccups. It was the worst.

I tried all that stuff you guys mentioned and it did nothing. I had to let them run their course, hating my life every minute of the day.

[csnarpy]

drinking a glass of water with my ears plugged does it for me. Weird but it works.