I’ve tried many things before, but in the past couple days I’ve found that eating a packet or two of mustard tends to get rid of hiccups.
What sort of tricks do you folks have?
Say this out loud:
“I am not a fish.”
Repeat as necessary.
I just say it in my head to myself. It has had a near 100% success rate for the past year. I don’t understand it, yet it works!
This really made my day. I’m a big fan of the ontogeny-filogeny thingy despite it often ends up disproved (e.g. recapitulation).
The other interesting theory, and the one I knew, was as a mechanism to empty air from the stomach, aiding milk consumption in mammals.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504071/
I preferred yours.
I actually learned this from an oncology nurse whose patients sometimes get chronic hiccups from certain chemo; the thing to do is have someone pull down on your earlobes while slightly cupping your ears forward, and then you drink water slowly while they hold your earlobes. Works every time. I taught this to a friend who had trouble with hiccups after surgery and she says it saved her life.
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Well aren’t you a pleasant little dumpling of a person.
It ain’t all that serious yo, I ain’t about to die. Hiccups are a thing we can all relate to occasionally, just figured I’d ask what random tricks people have found useful.
For me, half the time a teaspoon of sugar does the trick, other times a glob of mustard does the trick. If my hiccups were chronic enough, of course I’d seek medical attention.
I hold my breath for 2 breaths in a row. Works every. Single. Time.
My wife believes that the secret to resolving hiccups is to “breathe as much air into your lungs as possible, squeezing your chest against your knees while crouching and keeping you breathe held; then lastly, standing up after 30 seconds.”
She learned this from her Dad who has a mischievous side. To me, when she first described it, sounded like the steps someone would take to make themselves pass out unconscious. I guess it depends how fast you stand up. Is Lemmy able to settle this one for us?
Dying. Works every time first time and they never come back.
I usually just breathe in as much as I can and hold my breath until I need another gasp of air. It usually goes away after two or three times.
Lying on your back and pressing your knees to your chest is another way to get them to stop that works for me.
The holding your breath thing works. You inhale as much as you can, which stretches your diaphragm out, and hold it as long as you can, even through the next few hiccups. Works like a charm.
Quick sips of water works for me.
Another technique that works only once when someone else is having a hiccup is to offer them a glass of water with a knife inside. The moment they see it, hiccup is gone.
That second one sounds fun. We used to do a lemon/lime slice dunked in sugar at a bar I went to years ago. The sweet/sour difference used to confuse the brain for just long enough for most people it seemed
Boo!
Did it worked?
The only trick that worked for me was this.
Had been hiccuping for probably 5 minutes. Nothing working. Someone came up to me and just said “hiccup for me now” just waited for that hiccup. Kept asking for me to hiccup for maybe 30 seconds to a minute. Gone. No more hiccups.
He’s a witch!
Drink a cup of sugar water. Works every time.
get warm and eat a little snack
Hold my breath while thinking of a soothing song. Alternatively, actively try to hiccup.
When someone else has the hiccups, cup your hands together (like you’re about to pour water in them), hold them in front of them and excitedly tell them repeatedly (in a loud-ish, hurried voice like you’re about to miss out on the chance of a lifetime):
" Quick! Hiccup in my hands! Hurry up! Do it! Hiccup in my hands!"
Gotta do it quickly and unexpectedly enough to surprise them. They’ll either be so surprised that they forget the hiccup, or they will actually try to do it but be so focused on it that they won’t be able to.
It’s got a pretty high success rate for when I’ve tried it.
For me, it reliably works to drink a big glass of water. But probably just a me thing…
Swallow a pinch of salt. Don’t let it dissolve on your tongue; just swallow.
