How can I get rid of the hiccups?
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Drink from the oposite side of the cup over a sink. This really works, something to do with the air in your lungs.
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For information about causes and treatment of hiccups, try:\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003068.htm
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1. Keep holding your breath between hic-ups.\n2. Suck a tea spoon of sugar.(Slowly)\n3. Have someone scare you so you jump.
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Hiccups are caused by trapped air. Carbonated drinks like soda contain alot of air trapped in bubles which gives it the fizz. Hence those bubbles get trapped and cause you to burb or hiccup.
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What Causes the Hiccups?\nHiccups are usually a reaction to your stomach and digestive system getting wonky. This happens when you eat too much, drink bubbly drinks like soda or swallow too much air. Some people get the hiccups for no reason at all. Other things that cause hiccups include skull fracture, epilepsy, tuberculosis and believe it or not, constipation (not being able to poop). \n\nCommon Cures for the Hiccups\nUnlike sneezing, farting, burping, etc., hiccups don't serve any purpose. Hiccups are just annoying and pointless. How do you get rid of hiccups? Which remedy works best? Home remedies are usually based on the idea that you have to disrupt the hiccup cycle. Remedies include holding your breath, breathing into a bag, pulling your tongue, sudden fright, or - get this - eating sugar. Just drinking water, if done soon enough, might wash down a chunk of food in the throat that's pressing against a nerve.
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Take a teaspoon of sugar or the sugar from one sugar packet and pour it on your tongue.  Let it disolve there.  By the time its disolved, your hiccups will be gone.  My kids used to get hiccups intentionally just so they could have the cure.  It works every time. \n\nAnother thing you could try is breathing slowly in and out of a small paper bag.  Thats the only thing that helps me.  Drinking never did help me with them.
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Try holding your breath, spoonful of peanut butter, glass of water through a paper towel, brushing your teeth.Ever notice how you can go days, weeks or months without the hiccups. Then one day you get them on and off ALL day!!!! SO annoying!!!Good luck!!!
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For me, I day-dream on purpose.  When you day-dream you forget about the hiccups, and breathe normal, thus, getting rid of the hiccups.  For anyone who reads this, you really should try this; IT WORKS!
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warm water lemon juice and salt stirred together in a glass always cures my hiccups
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I think it is due to a spasm in your diaphragm. If you breathe in real slowly and then exhale real slowly a couple of times it can stop your hiccups.
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you need to get in touch with your doctor or get a doctor,cuz you might have a illness that irritates the phrenic nerve in the diaphragm,you can get hiccups when you overeat,eatting too fast,drinking carbonated beverages.This method that someone told me to do once when I had the hiccups get a glass of water, a straw, put the straw in the glass of water put your mouth on the straw and block your ears with your fingers and drink the water thur the straw all of it. It works everytime when I have the hiccups.Good Luck.....
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This is a true method.\n\nDrink from the backside of a cup of water!\n\nWith a cup half full, lower it waste high and bend over so that your mouth is on the back side of the cup. Continue bending and tip the cup so as to take a drink.\n\nWha-la, your hiccups are gone.
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Because hiccups are the spasms in the diapraghm, you need to regulate it's movement. The best way to do this, is to take a glass of water, place the edge of the glass between your teeth, take a sip, breathe in, take a sip, breathe out, take a sip, breathe in, take a sip breathe out, slowly for a few minutes until your hiccups go away.
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Place a tablespoon of sugar in mouth and suck slowly. In most cases, it is a sure remedy. For the authors of this web site, it works in more than 90% times.\nBlock both ears aand drink 6 ounces water without stopping to breathe. It works in more than 90% times\nHold your breath as long as possible, and let it go out. The lungs expand and push down on the diaphragm, stopping hiccups immediately.\nTake a deep breathe through your mouth, lean forward and push down your stomach. Hold in that position as long as you can and then slowly exhale the air through your mouth.\nMix 2 tsp common salt in a cup of plain yogurt (curd, yoghurt) and eat. In most cases, it is a good remedy.\nBoil 1/2 tsp of cardamom fresh powder in 2 cup water till about 1 cup water remains, Sieve it and drink a glassful of this warm water.\nFor recurring hiccups, suck small pieces of fresh ginger.\nPlug your ears with your fingers and drink something with a straw.\nLay on your back.\nPut a paper bag over your mouth and nose and breathe several times.\nFor some eating a spoonful of peanut butter stops hiccups immediately. It can work for children also.\nPull your tongue out of your mouth as far as you can and hold it for a couple of seconds.\nPlug your ears and nose and drink water.\nSing or laugh as loud as you can.\nTickle your uvula (the piece of skin that hangs down deep inside in your mouth) with a wrapped straw.\nEnage yourself in talking with somebody and do not care about hiccups. The hiccups will stop in five minutes.
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Take a deep breath, hold it and count upto 21 in your mind. Release breath. That's it. Hiccups will vanish. It works every time.
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Fill a glass with water and, bending over it, drink from the opposite side that you would normally drink from.  This contracts your muscles which are causing the hiccups and it never fails for me.....
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"Hic!" You've just hiccuped for what seems like the tenth time since you finished your big dinner. Wonder where these funny noises are coming from? The part to blame is your diaphragm (say: die-uh-fram). This is a dome-shaped muscle at the bottom of your chest, and all hiccups start here.\n\nThe diaphragm almost always works perfectly. When you inhale, it pulls down to help pull air into the lungs. When you exhale, it pushes up to help push air out of the lungs. But sometimes the diaphragm becomes irritated. When this happens, it pulls down in a jerky way, which makes you suck air into your throat suddenly. When the air rushing in hits your voice box, you're left with a big hiccup.\n\nSome things that irritate the diaphragm are eating too quickly or too much, an irritation in the stomach or the throat, or feeling nervous or excited. Almost all cases of the hiccups last only a few minutes. Some cases of the hiccups can last for days or weeks, but this is very unusual, and it's usually a sign of another medical problem.\n\nYou've probably heard lots of suggestions for how to get rid of hiccups, and maybe you've even tried a few. Holding your breath and counting to 10 is one way some people can get rid of their hiccups. Other people say that drinking from the "wrong" side of a glass of water is the way to become hiccup-free.\n\nPutting sugar under your tongue might work, too. And maybe the most famous treatment - having someone jump out and scare you when you're not expecting it - helps some people wave good-bye to their hiccups. Boo!