How do you get rid of the hiccups?
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This is the only real way to instantly cure the hiccups! Look no further! The Hughes/Green method cure's the hiccups EVERY time GUARANTEED! You will be amazed! Hundreds of instantly cured hiccuper's have sent in their testimony's of deliverance! Files are available for researchers! Carefully understand both the HOW and the WHY of this method. If you don't get the WHY you might not get the HOW. Here's how to cure the hiccups:\n\n"Hughes/Green Hiccups Cure"© 1997\n\n(1) Pour a TALL glass of water.\n\n(2) Hold your breath... ***\n\n(3) IMPORTANT...PINCH YOUR NOSE CLOSED.\n\n(4) Slowly, take 10 - 20 swallows of the water...while holding your breath with your nose pinched closed.\n\n(5) When you can't stand it any more....you'll know by that overwhelming drowning sensation -- after a gasp, take a deep breath and relax.\n\nThis cures the hiccups 99 percent of the time - guaranteed! It's a proven medical remedy! (A second treatment could be necessary for stubborn cases.)\n\n*** For stubborn cases, try EXHALING COMPLETELY and then taking 10 - 20 swallows.\n\nNOW: HERE'S WHY IT WORKS: Hiccups are caused by an uncontrollable spasm in the diaphragm, (the "breathing" muscle). Often, this spasm is triggered by irritable conditions in the smooth muscles of the stomach or the esophagus. The "Hughes/Green Hiccups Cure" forces an increase in the carbon dioxide levels in the diaphragm itself, as well as in the stomach and esophagus. By swallowing, you are making the muscles work -- so they use up their available oxygen and replace it with carbon dioxide. By temporarily discontinuing to breath, you prohibit new oxygen from entering your body and thus create an anaerobic condition in the spasming diaphragm muscle. When the spasming diaphragm and stomach are deprived temporarily of oxygen and encounter the higher levels of carbon dioxide ... you feel that scary drowning sensation! BUT this causes the spasming muscles to relax! The hiccups go away! Essentially, you are "tricking" your body into thinking that it's drowning ... and it decides to use it's resources for something other than hiccuping. The rather "scary" drowning sensation caused by this method is NECESSARY for the method to work. If it's not just a little bit difficult ... it doesn't work.
763786
Hiccups is a spasm of the diaphragm. If you have a spasm of any other part of the body it is not helpful so I see no reason for hiccups to be beneficial.
354912
Suck in as much air as you possibly can - so much that it prevents the hiccup spasm occuring - and hold it as long as you can.  Simple, effective.
197766
This is the only real way to instantly cure the hiccups! Look no further!  The Hughes/Green method cure's the hiccups EVERY time GUARANTEED!  You will be amazed!  Hundreds of instantly cured hiccuper's have sent in their testimony's of deliverance! Files are available for researchers! Carefully understand both the HOW and the WHY of this method. If you don't get the WHY you might not get the HOW. Here's how to cure the hiccups:\n\n"Hughes/Green Hiccups Cure"© 1997\n\n(1) Pour a TALL glass of water.\n\n(2) Hold your breath... ***\n\n(3) IMPORTANT...PINCH YOUR NOSE CLOSED.\n\n(4) Slowly, take 10 - 20 swallows of the water...while holding your breath with your nose pinched closed.\n\n(5) When you can't stand it any more....you'll know by that overwhelming drowning sensation -- after a gasp, take a deep breath and relax.\n\nThis cures the hiccups 99 percent of the time - guaranteed! It's a proven medical remedy! (A second treatment could be necessary for stubborn cases.)\n\n*** For stubborn cases, try EXHALING COMPLETELY and then taking 10 - 20 swallows.\n\n      NOW: HERE'S WHY IT WORKS: Hiccups are caused by an uncontrollable spasm in the diaphragm, (the "breathing" muscle). Often, this spasm is triggered by irritable conditions in the smooth muscles of the stomach or the esophagus. The "Hughes/Green Hiccups Cure" forces an increase in the carbon dioxide levels in the diaphragm itself, as well as in the stomach and esophagus. By swallowing, you are making the muscles work -- so they use up their available oxygen and replace it with carbon dioxide. By temporarily discontinuing to breath, you prohibit new oxygen from entering your body and thus create an anaerobic condition in the spasming diaphragm muscle. When the spasming diaphragm and stomach are deprived temporarily of oxygen and encounter the higher levels of carbon dioxide ... you feel that scary drowning sensation! BUT this causes the spasming muscles to relax! The hiccups go away! Essentially, you are "tricking" your body into thinking that it's drowning ... and it decides to use it's resources for something other than hiccuping. The rather "scary" drowning sensation caused by this method is NECESSARY for the method to work. If it's not just a little bit difficult ... it doesn't work.
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Hiccups occur when a spasm contracts the diaphragm, a large sheet of muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity. This spasm causes an intake of breath that is suddenly stopped by the closure of the vocal cords (glottis). This closure causes the characteristic "hiccup" sound. A very full stomach can cause bouts of hiccups that go away on their own. Full stomach can be caused by:\nEating too much too fast. \nDrinking too much alcohol. \nSwallowing too much air. \nSmoking. \nSudden change in stomach temperature, such as drinking a hot beverage and then a cold beverage. \nEmotional stress or excitement.
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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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Hiccups are caused by a spasm of the diaphram. To cure it, you need to "reset" the natural rhythm. The way to do this is :-\n\n(1) Pour a TALL glass of water.\n\n(2) Hold your breath...\n\n(3) IMPORTANT...PINCH YOUR NOSE CLOSED.\n\n(4) Slowly, take 10 - 20 swallows of the water...while holding your breath with your nose pinched closed.\n\n(5) When you can't stand it any more....you'll know by that overwhelming drowning sensation -- after a gasp, take a deep breath and relax.
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Just thinking about the next hiccup may stop you from having them. Some say that after the first few hiccups the rest are just in your mind and your body is following your mind. If this were true why do babies get the hiccups? Anyway just try to predict when the next hiccup will strike! You may be concentrating so hard that it just won't arrive. If you are with someone who has the hiccups offer them something if they can hiccup just three more times. If you offer them something like $5 or $20 it works even better! \n\nTake sugar swallowed dry, some say take a teaspoon others a tablespoon, and some say white and some say brown sugar, I think that depends on your personal taste.
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because the air causes their stomach muscle (i don't know the word in English) to be excited...so the muscle will contract rapidly, causing the air to go out quickly, with a sound...To end it, you must take a deep breath and hold your respiration for about one minute...keep the air in...this will relax the muscle and will cause you to stop the hiccups. when you let the air out, let it out easily, not quickly.
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Here's what you do. Some people say mustard cures it, or water with cartwheels but this works best.\n\n1. Drink some cold water and let it slide down your throat.\n2. Begin to put some more cold water in your mouth but do not swallow.\n3. Hold water in throat for 10-15 sec. while not breathing through your nose.\n4. Swallow\n\nHopefully your hiccups will be gone by now, if not try this a second time and they will be gone.
925056
For a headache take anadin extra.For hiccups drink water from the opposite side of the glass,sounds weird but it really works..
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I know it sounds nuts, but that hiccup trick works for me; where you get a tall cup of water, sit it on the table, and drink from the opposite side of the glass. It may have something to do with the way your air passages are as you drink\n\n\nAlso for hiccups, try a spoonful of peanut butter\n\n\nThe only real hiccup cure is one that treats the hiccups for what they really are. Hiccups are caused by the diaphragm spasming. Taking in as much air as possible, makes the lungs expand and push down on the diaphragm. This stretches the diaphragm out to it original position and shape. Hold the breath as long as possible, just don't pass out, and let it out. Voila', no more hiccups. It works every time. \n\nIf all of the above dont work.. just watch a horror movie or let something scare U.
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stick ur toungue out as far as u can and count to 10\nor\nget a dixie cup of water, hold ur ears, gulp the water down\nor\nsay fannadannajackedup 10 times\nor \nhold ur breath\nor \nput a spoonful of suger on the roof of ur mouth\nor look here (scroll down to hiccups)\nhttp://www.med-help.net/MedicalTips.html
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Hiccups are sudden, involuntary contractions of the diaphragm muscle. As the muscle contracts repeatedly, the opening between your vocal cords snaps shut to check the inflow of air and makes the hiccup sound. ... Irritation of the nerves that extend from the neck to the chest can cause hiccups ...Try these methods at home:\n\nHold your breath. \nDrink a glass of water quickly. \nBecome frightened. \nUse smelling salts. \nPull hard on your tongue. \nPlace one-half teaspoon of dry sugar on the back of your tongue. (You can repeat this process 3 times at 2-minute intervals. Use corn syrup, not sugar, in young children.) The reason that these remedies are thought to work is that carbon dioxide build-up in the blood will stop hiccups, which is what happens when you hold your breath.
66643
This may sound dumb, but it really works!  Eat a tablespoon full of sugar.  Try to swallow it all at once and you will not have another hiccup afterwards.  Works from experience.  I am a cocktail waitress at a bar and when all the drunks get them I make them take a shot of sugar.
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You can try drinking a glass of water while bending over and drinking from the opposite side of the glass or you can try holding the mid portion of your clavicle to compress the phrenic nerve, which controls your diaphram, which gives you the hiccups when it is in spasm. : )
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Don't listen to those morons. All you need to cure hiccups is a little consentration. At first, this will be a bit tricky and may require silence. Afer a little while, it will require nothing more than a moment of thought. It NEVER fails, once you get the hang of it.