How do YOU get rid of your hiccups?

[Osaka]

First I try to hold my breath, but that never works, so then I try water. water usually helps but takes a while

also, once I get rid of them, I have a weird feeling in my throat like as if I should be hiccuping still.

 

[Renegade_R]

Use one of those "What's wrong?" Flash movies

 

[Osaka]

well, water SHOULD always work.

Humans hiccup because of a reflex we still have from when we were animals that walked more horizontal. these animals have this reflex to help push larger pieces of food down our throat.

 

[euphemism]

Okay, here is a surefire way to get rid of the hiccups. This has worked for me every time and for everyone i have suggested it to. Grab a glass of water. Get a mouthful of water, bend over, and swallow it in thirds. Do it two more times. As you get better at it, you can do it with less in your mouth at one time, it works with other liquids too. Get good enough and you can even do it with the spit in your mouth.

 

[m3rox]

Oh wow, I haven't gotten hiccups since I was a mid to late teen.

 

[mthrnite]

Here's the trick:

Breath in all the way, fill you lungs completely with air, then take five sips of water.
Breath out all the way, completely empty your lungs of air, then take five sips of water.

If it doesn't work the first time through, it usually does the second.

Good luck, and happy involuntary-action quelling!

 

[dakeyras]

Sex works pretty well I think. Though it can be awkward when you just get started while still having hiccups.

 

[herbanassault]

Anyone who says holding your breath doesn't work isn't trying hard enough. That's probably true of their entire life.

QUITTERS.

 

[Kyuzumaki]

This trick has yet to fail.....

Take a deep breath and hold it
When you can't hold it anymore don't breathe out just breathe more in
Do the same thing 3 times

 

[Caoimhin]

Well the most important thing is: FORGET your hiccup. I heard that all these ways of getting rid of it have one in common: you're concentrating on something else.
Speaking of which.. I haven't had any hiccups for a loooong time..

 

[Salamantis]

I hold my breath for as long as possible and drink a ton of water, it always helps me

 

[moozxy]

Get in the fridge.

 

[jalaneme]

the most simple cure is to get someone to make you jump, this cures you instantly lol

 

[notnarb]

I've always gotten rid of my hiccups the first time by drinking a liquid upside-down (by drinking water from the far end of the cup as someone already suggested). It may be different with different people, but I can just feel it work (it makes your lungs do something a little funny

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

I hold my breath for 1 minute. It works very well and even cured my friend who was having hiccups the whole morning

 

[Taras]

There's only one way. Light a strike-anywhere match. Drop it in a glass of water & drink the water. Everything else is b.s.

 

[Sinkhead]

Drink a glass of water while dent over double so you have to swallow upwards. Works every time for me, except that time while I hiccupped while I was drinking and it all came out of my nose.

 

[GameDragon]

I always just hold my breath for a long as I can. It usually works.

 

[--JoCa--]

just WTF!?!?!?! Try to fart a lot????

cientificaly speaking (just like Ema Skye), hiccups come from a bad signal that your bulbus (dunno if that's how you say it in english, but portuguese its Bulbo, the 3rd part of the brain), so theorically, you would have to wram it up so it starts sending good signals all over again, but it only work when you're a baby cause bone density and stuff... So, unless u try IRONNING you own back of the head (wich I don't reccomend), you'll depend on luck only