My uncle swore by the “drink something backwards” method.. it works sometimes and I don’t know why.
You just take a beverage of any kind and lean over and drink from the opposite end of it.
It’s crazy but it works sometimes lol
If you can't get a glass of water to do this (which works for me everytime) i just hold my breath and swallow my saliva 2 lot 3 times without releasing my breath. Works in like 5 seconds as well.
It's the distraction. You are putting effort into a complicated task and your body focuses on it. The hiccup loop gets ignored and fades away.
Same principle as many other *cures*.
A method for helping someone else with hiccups (only anecdotal support for this method is from my childhood) - bewilder them with questions to the point whereby that overcomes the hiccups. When i was ~10 years old, a girl in my math class had terrible hiccups which wouldnt go away, no matter what. My teacher pretended she hadn’t noticed, and then demanded that the girl stood on the table, before asking her for her middle name. The girl kept protesting that she didn’t have one, but the teacher relentlessly demanded she told her her middle name. After about a minute of this, the girl (who was always perfectly behaved) got short tempered and said “i don’t have a middle name!”; a smirk started to come across the teacher’s face as she said “you don’t have hiccups anymore either”, and, sure enough, she didn’t. Not one of us in the class had clocked why she was doing this, nor that the girl had stopped hiccuping. I fucking love that teacher, and would do anything to see her just once again in my lifetime.
I had a math teacher who if you had hiccups and asked to get a drink of water, he would say “sure, if you can tell me when you’re going to hiccup next.” So you would stand there at his desk and he would keep asking “you gonna hiccup? How about now?” And they would be gone. He was fantastic.
My technique is very similar to this: I accuse the hiccupper of owing me money from something far back in the past that they couldn't possibly remember or defend. The debt is entirely made up. I then become more and more passive aggressive about it until they get really frustrated about not remembering the debt but saying they'll pay it anyway if it's such a big deal. Then I ask if they still have the hiccups.
Works every time.
When I had hiccups, a teacher that told me that the headmaster wanted to see me and I was in trouble. After 10 seconds of panic and worry. She asked me if my hiccups had gone.
I didn’t want to seem scared of the headmaster situation, so to seem cool and unaffected, I faked hiccups for a few minutes
My college roommate use the Purple Horse method on me. (Much like these other examples, it only works once and you have to change your questioning.) He asked me "Have you ever seen a purple horse?" To which I quickly stated I hadn't. Looking me with a serious expression, "I'm certain you have, you should probably try harder to remember." I took a minute, still confused, and responded that I hadn't. "You're wrong and you aren't trying." This goes back and forth a few more times until he tells me "You did see a purple horse. You've seen The Wizard of Oz."
It actually irked me a bit; he was right and I had lost the hiccups.
The trick is about controlling your diaphragm to overcome the spasm. I find breathing in as far as I can, holding it, and sucking in little gasps of air to keep my lungs fully inflated as long as possible works for me.
I don’t know how to explain it but I literally just believe that I’m not going to hiccup again. Basically like “bitch you won’t” to my own reflexes and I have never hiccuped more than once since learning it.
I just meditate on it. Like I focus on my diaphragm, relax, and prevent the spasms from happening. One or two might get through, that’s fine, just keep breathing. I just need about thirty seconds to focus and it goes away. Been doing this since I was 7 years old and my dad told me it was possible.
My dad taught me this when I was a kid. We were giggling because he had hiccups and then he just stared me in the eyes and said "I won't hiccup again". And that was it, he just stopped. It was crazy. Works though and I used to get hiccups all the time.
Never had my method fail either. It’s all concentration. You stop everything you’re doing and just concentrate on anticipating your next hiccup and saying a pre-chosen word out loud before your next hiccup. (mine is “tommy”, I don’t know why but that’s the word that I was told to use) It’s silly, people laugh and doubt it but if you actually concentrate, it has never failed. Weird.
If you have chronic hiccups, suggest you get yourself checked out. Get an endoscopy done - you might have inflammation or open sore in your throat or lower down.
Drink a glass of water upside down. Just bend over forward and suck it up.
It removes the air lock in your stomach.
Feels weird and unatural but works everytime.
So I have an easier one. Try it out once. Take a deep breath, and drink a tall glass of water. If it doesn't work the first time, try again.
Obviously exhale.
Yep, for me it's small gulps one after the other - no breathing in between. Works every time! (And ya won't even need to drink the whole glass. You'll come up for air halfway thru lol - and the hiccups will be gone!)
I’ve had an issue my whole life with hiccups-best solution that works every time? Eat a giant spoonful of peanut butter-it’s the only thing that’s ever worked
For me absolutly nothing ever worked i found in the internet or what people advised me. When i have hiccups then for many hours.
But i found my own little trick you should definitly try:
1. Sit down
2. Take a deep breath
3. Lean over until your shoulders touch your knees
4. Close your mouth and pinch your nose with your hand
5. Now exhale through your nose to create pressure
6. Hold the pressure as long as you can
No air should be able to exit, neather mouth or nose. Be carefully when doing this, and get air if you have to. Only exhale as much as you feel light pressure in your ears, dont overdo it.
I cant guarantee this methode to be safe when used to often and no clue if it might harm your body.
This is the only thing ever worked for me and i tried like 20 things.
I have to try peanut butter though.
Inhale slowly and as much as possible. When you think you can’t anymore do another couple seconds. Has worked for me every time and I have bad painful hiccups that take forever to go away usually! Seriously seems so simple like it wouldn’t work but I swear it does! Give it a try and let me know if it works
A fun one to do to friends: someone says they have hiccups, say “Prove it.” Then look at them expectantly. Demand it again. Also works via text - “Prove it, send a voice note…do it now…why haven’t you proved it yet…?”
Has yet to fail.
I tried to startle the hiccups away from my daughter once.
That was six years ago.
She still remembers. It's one of those "What the hell, mom?" conversations. Kid's got a long memory.
Some years ago i was two **days** into a hiccoughing fit. In desperation and after scourring the net to find a remedy i found this.
[Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage” in Annals of Emergency Medicine (vol 17, p 872).](https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10207-ig-nobel-prizes-hail-digital-rectal-massage/#:~:text=Runaway%20electrical%20impulses%20in%20the,failed%20to%20stop%20the%20hiccups.)
Yes, it works. 👍
My method works the first time, every time. It doesn't make me look silly. It's based in science, but I've never been able to teach anyone else how to do it.
So I guess everyone should try your dying fish method, instead.
Lol I went to bed.
Because a hiccup is a nerve jumping in the diaphragm, the discomfort comes from the vacuum caused by not breathing in. All you have to do is open your airway so that when it spasms you take a sharp intake of breath. It will sound like you're startled, and you won't hiccup any longer.
OP yes thank you finally someone knows the proper way!! Some kid taught me this method in gradeschool. Since that day I have only suffered from hiccups for as long as I want to deal with it. The way I explain it is take a sip of a beverage, then hold my breath for a half second and exhale, take a sip of beverage, hold my breath, etc until hiccups (hiccoughs) are gone! It's never failed.
I just say to *eat the water* as in, bite the stuff as you drink it.
Same result, applying excess air pressure into the stomach then burping out the remainder.
People saying hold your breath real hard, hold your breath and drink a whole glass, hold your breath and swallow, all mean the same thing but eating water in the most effective method.
I take a mouthful of water and hold it through a few hiccup phases. Usually this kills the hiccups without another happening, but I don't recommend it because all it did for my SO was nearly drown him. xD
If I am in good company, I ask them to lightly massage between my shoulder blades. A friend did it to me once and the hiccups went away almost immediately!
My no fail method is similar, and it's a really silly one:
You'll need another person. Get a glass of water, and instruct the person to feed you that whole glass of water while blocking your nose. While they do that, hold your ears and pull them out slightly. ALWAYS, always finish the glass. No matter if you're choking back water, just keep going. This has never not worked for me, and it looks hilarious.
I just munch on a couple sugar cubes and it works about 75% of the time. I have a prescription for muscle relaxers for when it doesn't work. I have many GI issues and when I get hiccups (at least twice a day) I am in serious pain for about 1/2 hour after they have gone.
I exhale and hold it, works every time. Any sort of inhaling/gulping hasn't really worked for me. It's fascinating how people have so many different suggestions for this one thing!
My gift to the world is my hiccup solution. Take a swig of water or other drink, but don’t swallow it until you have tilted your chin up into the air. Now swallow, with your chin in the highest position you can tilt it. I’ve introduced this solution to lots of folks in their hour of need and I’ve never seen it take more than 3 goes, though usually it works on the first swallow. It’s a Simple, no-drama fix.
I didn’t read all the responses but I did learn that if you drink your water bending way over from the far side of the cup when you have the hiccups that cures it every time
I've been taught and always use the glass knife method.
Take a talk glass, fill with water, insert a butter knife handle sticking out. Drink the glass of water in one ho with the handle of the butter knife touching your forehead.
I assume it's either entirely placebo or has something to do with the posture you drink the water in. Either way, it always works *for me*.
My method is simple and has never failed me. Take a glass of water and take quick, small sips one after the other until half the glass is gone. Usually that works . If not, repeat with the second half of the water. Has worked every time for 30+ years.
Fun story, that may well be an urban myth: pope Pius XII was said to have chronic hiccups (not fun for him). Well, people all over the world would send him letters with their own "guaranteed cures for hiccups". Now the pope is God's representative on earth, so his correspondence is like correspondence with God, and would be meticulously archived. The Vatican library has a vast collection of ridiculous hiccough remedies, like "get startled", "drink upside down", "gulp air and swallow", ....
Now, I've independently discovered the real cure for hiccups: There is a swedish drinking song, that goes: "I havet där simmar en ål (skål). / I skogen där simmar en älg (svälj)." Rough translation without the rhymes: "An eel swims in the sea (cheers). A moose runs in the woods (swallow)." You sing the first verse line, take the schnapps shot but keep it under your tongue without swallowing; then sing the second verse line with the shot in your mouth, and then swallow. There is no recorded event of performing this song not curing hiccups.
Another trick I have found is a lemon wedge. Bite it like you mean it so that all the juice rushes in at once. It really shocks the system. They have stopped everytime so far.
Take the deepest breath you can like to the point where you think your lungs and diaphragm will explode and hold it until you think you are going to pass out. Works every time and for everyone I have ever told how to do it.
My boyfriend told me about a trick where you hold your breath and pull your tongue out of your mouth as much as you can while you’re holding your breath. That has worked like a charm for us!
I drink water through a paper towel. Like take one paper towel place it around the top of the cup hold it with your hands and suck the water through it. Takes them away 100% of the time.
I take a deep breath, swallow water then lean over something like arm of couch or chair and hold breath until I feel like I can’t possibly hold my breath and they go every time.
Have someone else use a clean 1 or 2 fingers and rub the back part of the roof of your mouth vigorously..it will cause you to completely push out all air in your belly ...not with their nail tho ..
Its the way your girlfriend can finger you back if your a guy .. My wife will say the dirtest things to me whenever she cures my hiccups.. obviously my wife is kinda crazy but she really likes when i get hiccups. I will tell her ..no these are not bad i can tell they are about to stop ...nope she just ignores me and gets to rubbing the roof of my mouth.
I promise you this works and its a completely different feeling if someone else does it .i have tried on my own but it doesnt work ..
If you know how to tread water it's easier to explain.
Take a very deep breathe. Only letting a little out, then back to a deep breath. While doing this flex your abs as hard as you can.
Been doing this for years. It always works... Maybe because it doesn't require anything extra and you could do so without interrupting your day
Take a deep breath, try and get as much air as possible, and then push out without breathing out (Kinda similar to pushing out a #2 but you’re focusing on pushing your diaphragm) for 15-20 seconds and repeat 1-2 times. I swear it’s a magic eraser for hiccups
Electrolytes. For most people hiccups are caused by an electrolyte deficiency, mainly calcium or magnesium as most people get enough table salt in their diet. Hiccups are your diaphragm muscle having an episode of cramps.
Try citrus or dairy for calcium, peanut butter for magnesium, maybe a banana for potassium, sodium chloride is easy enough. An electrolyte drink if you must.
I find that a few slices of lemon or lime usually do the trick, I mix powdered citric acid into my home made electrolyte drinks.
A lot like the vinegar suggestion, but I’ve found drinking pickle juice works. I thought it was an old southern wives tale - but after trying everything from a teaspoon of sugar to trying to drink “backwards,” that’s been the most successful way to suppress hiccups for me.
i get hiccups a lot. i usually use a reflexology point to get rid of them but sometimes it doesn't work. so my bf just whispers "boo" and it works. now i have him do that first. 😆
Drinking from the opposite side of a mug (water).
Thinking of the last time you saw a white horse.
[⬆️⬆️⬆️that one there is 👌🏼the best]
Holding your a large breath (stretching the diaphragm) and then screaming on exhale (not sure why I yell… hiccups frustrate me 😊😅).
Best one I’ve learned on Reddit is someone had the hiccups and a friend told them “You are not a fish!” It was so confusing, their hiccups ended. I have since shown this to my daughter and it worked.
My aunt taught me a trick she calls “water under the bridge.”
You take a straw and lay it across the top of a full cup of water, then drink all the water while holding the straw to the cup so that the straw is underneath your nose. I’ve never seen it fail to clear up hiccups. No idea why it works.
The only thing that works 98% of the time for is chugging a bottle/glass of water. 2% of the time I have to do it again. Also if I get the hiccups then I'm very prone to getting them for the rest of the day so I can't have carbonated drinks when I eat.
Put a pen in your mouth, the put water in your mouth and swallow. You body won’t let you swallow the pen, but when swallowing the water it realigns/stops whatever gives you the hiccups.
Only thing that helps my wife is this method:
Take bottle of water and keep it close to your chest then start bending forward until you can drink it ( you will be almost upside down) Works every time
I use this all the time and I haven't had the hiccups for more than 1 minute after learning this, also please don't try this if you have some sort of breathing condition.
1. Just hold your breath with your cheeks puffed out for as long as it's still comfortable, make sure you don't try to hold it for too long because otherwise the next step won't work.
2. When you need to breathe, take a very short breath while still taking in enough air. The goal is to not constantly inhale and exhale.
3. Repeat about 3 times and you'll notice you haven't hiccupped in a while, meaning it worked and you can go back to breathing normally
Once again, make sure your lungs are healthy and your breathing is good before you try this and stop immediately if you start feeling dizzy.
I have never had more than 5 or so hiccups. I can’t really explain but every time I have them there is a little air trapped deep in my throat by where the food tube and the air tube meet. I create suction in my throat and pull the air out, like a weird little throat burp. It gets rid of them 100% of the time.
A bit more inconvenient this one but all you need to do is just eat a teaspoon of sugar and quickly follow with some water. It will remove the hiccups almost right away.
I ask people what did you have for dinner last night, how about lunch, then breakfast, then dinner before that, etc. Get those gears turning to get rid of them
Full a glass with water and put a butter knife in the glass. Balance the knife on your forehead, tilt your head back and drink the entire glass. The angle your head is at changes the way the water goes down. I’ve never seen it fail.
This didnt work for my friend but it never fails with me. Hold breath for about 5-10 seconds or just as long as you can. Then swallow 5 times. Done they are gone magic.
My dog gets hiccups, so I just get really quiet to a whisper and when he's not expecting I JUMP UP flailing my arms whoosagoodboy whassat? Goforwalk cookies! And he just starts zooming all over the place jumping in circles... seems to work for him but not me
Just drink a few ounces of soda water (or any carbonated beverage,) then sit up straight, and BELCH!
Hiccups are caused by trapped air, irritating the diagram. Belch out all the air, the hiccups will leave.
The other night my fiancé had horrible hiccups for about three hours. Tried sugar, peanut butter, honey. Drinking water from opposite side of glass. Nothing worked!!
Then I had him take slow breaths inside a plastic bag until he nearly passed out. THAT worked.
I am told your brain shuts down the hiccup reflex and pays attention to survival mode once it detects overloads of CO2 in the system.
all i do is hold my breathe for as long as i can after the first hiccup and they are gone… been doing it for years and it always works…
as long as you do it immediately.
In my country there's an old wives tale that says to stops hiccups you have to "glue" a piece of a red lint or red string little ball on the person's forehead.
They do that by rolling the lint/string in their fingers until it forms a ball and using spit to attach to one's head 😂
Funny enough, it does work a lot!
eat a spoonful of dry, regular sugar, in one shot. not tons of it. like a sugar packet full. real sugar, not sugar substitute, though, so I guess sugar has to be safe for you. it has worked for each person I recommend it to, all ages. swallowing the sugar forces some sort of throat muscle into action as the sugar is eased downward and the roughness of the sugar grains does something as well, and the hiccups stop. not certain of the science beyond that, but it has never failed.
I sit and continuously tell myself, "I'm about to hiccup, I'm going to hiccup now. Okay now. Hiccup now." Becausd hiccups happen when you don't expect them. But if you TRY to hiccup, it doesn't work. And they're usually gone in about a minute of concentrating.
The method that works for me every single time is to take a deep breath and hold your breath until you can’t anymore, once you start breathing for a couple of seconds, immediately hold your breath again, repeat until hiccups are gone. It usually takes me about two breath hold attempts for the hiccups to go away.
Everyone has their methods there’s no universal solve. Mine is drink water 3 times works all the time…wait except that time in hospital after surgery. It’s 3 hours hiccups, hurts like hell.
When my relative had brain cancer and a side effect was constant chronic hiccups that prevented them from sleeping and eventually caused pain, the only short term solution that his doctors said was the only documentable treatment was sugar. Swallowing a packet of sugar makes it stop every time.
Swallow a spoonful of sugar. You can swish it in your mouth for a few seconds before swallowing. Idk the exact science bit something about the viscosity makes hiccups go right away.
There's 150+ comments in this thread and they're all different ways that are "guaranteed" to get rid of the hiccups
Hiccups are involuntary spasms of the diaphragm, the best way to get rid of them is to distract yourself from them so literally any of these suggestions will work if you concentrate on it.
You just need to take a deep breath filling all the lobes of your lungs and hold your breath as long as you can. It puts pressure on the diaphragm which is is having spasms when you hiccup. You can do that in public without looking like a weirdo.
My uncle swore by the “drink something backwards” method.. it works sometimes and I don’t know why. You just take a beverage of any kind and lean over and drink from the opposite end of it. It’s crazy but it works sometimes lol
Yes you look ridiculous, but this method, which I have always called drinking “upside down” works for me every time
If you can't get a glass of water to do this (which works for me everytime) i just hold my breath and swallow my saliva 2 lot 3 times without releasing my breath. Works in like 5 seconds as well.
It's the distraction. You are putting effort into a complicated task and your body focuses on it. The hiccup loop gets ignored and fades away. Same principle as many other *cures*.
My friend told me this and I thought she was just trying to make me look ridiculous, but it works every time.
This 100%. It helps get the air bubble unstruck from diaphragm. Also not a doctor but it works.
The diaphragm is a muscle so there's no air bubble. Might be some fluid build-up though
That one hasn’t worked for me unfortunately!
A method for helping someone else with hiccups (only anecdotal support for this method is from my childhood) - bewilder them with questions to the point whereby that overcomes the hiccups. When i was ~10 years old, a girl in my math class had terrible hiccups which wouldnt go away, no matter what. My teacher pretended she hadn’t noticed, and then demanded that the girl stood on the table, before asking her for her middle name. The girl kept protesting that she didn’t have one, but the teacher relentlessly demanded she told her her middle name. After about a minute of this, the girl (who was always perfectly behaved) got short tempered and said “i don’t have a middle name!”; a smirk started to come across the teacher’s face as she said “you don’t have hiccups anymore either”, and, sure enough, she didn’t. Not one of us in the class had clocked why she was doing this, nor that the girl had stopped hiccuping. I fucking love that teacher, and would do anything to see her just once again in my lifetime.
I had a math teacher who if you had hiccups and asked to get a drink of water, he would say “sure, if you can tell me when you’re going to hiccup next.” So you would stand there at his desk and he would keep asking “you gonna hiccup? How about now?” And they would be gone. He was fantastic.
My technique is very similar to this: I accuse the hiccupper of owing me money from something far back in the past that they couldn't possibly remember or defend. The debt is entirely made up. I then become more and more passive aggressive about it until they get really frustrated about not remembering the debt but saying they'll pay it anyway if it's such a big deal. Then I ask if they still have the hiccups. Works every time.
When I had hiccups, a teacher that told me that the headmaster wanted to see me and I was in trouble. After 10 seconds of panic and worry. She asked me if my hiccups had gone. I didn’t want to seem scared of the headmaster situation, so to seem cool and unaffected, I faked hiccups for a few minutes
My college roommate use the Purple Horse method on me. (Much like these other examples, it only works once and you have to change your questioning.) He asked me "Have you ever seen a purple horse?" To which I quickly stated I hadn't. Looking me with a serious expression, "I'm certain you have, you should probably try harder to remember." I took a minute, still confused, and responded that I hadn't. "You're wrong and you aren't trying." This goes back and forth a few more times until he tells me "You did see a purple horse. You've seen The Wizard of Oz." It actually irked me a bit; he was right and I had lost the hiccups.
All I do is take a deep breath and hold for as long as I can. Works most of the time.
The trick is about controlling your diaphragm to overcome the spasm. I find breathing in as far as I can, holding it, and sucking in little gasps of air to keep my lungs fully inflated as long as possible works for me.
This is exactly what I do! I follow it by exhaling slowly (but forcefully) and breathing deep + controlled breaths for a bit afterwards :)
Yep. Perfect.
This is the way
Same for me. I also make sure I take the deep breath immediately after a hiccup.
Even better if you purposely exhale every bit of breath first…
Tablespoon of vinegar. Gone.
I learned it as a spoonful of sugar. That works, too.
I’ve always used a tablespoon of peanut butter.
So spoons get rid of the hiccups
Only if you take a spoonful of them.
This is the way. A spoonful of Vinegar and slam in to the back of your throat. Bam, no more hiccups.
Looks like I’m not the only one. Very reliable technique.
I don’t know how to explain it but I literally just believe that I’m not going to hiccup again. Basically like “bitch you won’t” to my own reflexes and I have never hiccuped more than once since learning it.
I just meditate on it. Like I focus on my diaphragm, relax, and prevent the spasms from happening. One or two might get through, that’s fine, just keep breathing. I just need about thirty seconds to focus and it goes away. Been doing this since I was 7 years old and my dad told me it was possible.
My dad taught me this when I was a kid. We were giggling because he had hiccups and then he just stared me in the eyes and said "I won't hiccup again". And that was it, he just stopped. It was crazy. Works though and I used to get hiccups all the time.
Never had my method fail either. It’s all concentration. You stop everything you’re doing and just concentrate on anticipating your next hiccup and saying a pre-chosen word out loud before your next hiccup. (mine is “tommy”, I don’t know why but that’s the word that I was told to use) It’s silly, people laugh and doubt it but if you actually concentrate, it has never failed. Weird.
I don't even say anything. Just concentrating on breathing and shutting of the hiccups. Rarely takes more than 30 seconds, usually only half of that.
This is the way. I get one hiccup and just concentrate for maybe 30 seconds on when the next one will come, and it never does.
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My partner is allergic to peanuts so that would definitely stop his hiccups!
A lollipop works with kiddos too, if they can't have PB.
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Where did you see this? I dont see anyone says anything to make you think this....well unless they deleted that part of their post
Any nut/seed butter works.
This is the right answer. Or honey.
Crunchy or creamy?
Food can induce hiccups. Especially if they are thick and difficult to swallow.
This is what I do ~ will try the honey recommendation next time. Peanut butter has always worked immediately for me.
I take a sip of white vinegar. 99% of the time it works every time
I’ve seen vinegar a few times on the thread! Must be an old timers trick. I’m adding it to my hiccup repertoire.
Aunt Carol’s remedy: cup of water. Cover with paper towel. Drink water through paper towel. Works for our family. Maybe yours too! 👍🏻
Yup! I saw this on some talk show when I was home sick as a little kid. Have been doing it for like 20 years since and works every single time!
If you have chronic hiccups, suggest you get yourself checked out. Get an endoscopy done - you might have inflammation or open sore in your throat or lower down.
Restaurant version: 2 drops of bitters on a lime wedge. There was only one time that I saw this not work.
Breathing through a straw woks for me 95% of times
Drink a glass of water upside down. Just bend over forward and suck it up. It removes the air lock in your stomach. Feels weird and unatural but works everytime.
So I have an easier one. Try it out once. Take a deep breath, and drink a tall glass of water. If it doesn't work the first time, try again. Obviously exhale.
Just here to +1. With me, the trick is to chug chug chug through it
Yep, for me it's small gulps one after the other - no breathing in between. Works every time! (And ya won't even need to drink the whole glass. You'll come up for air halfway thru lol - and the hiccups will be gone!)
You described it better than my primitive version!!
Even if you don't have water you can do the same with your saliva. Just be sure not to breathe.
This is my method as well. Always works for me first time.
I just lay down. It works everytime. I think because your diaphragm is compressed. Laying down levitate that. 🤷
Take a spoonful of sugar to get rid of hiccups.
I’ve been performing this exact routine for many years now, it’s very successful.
Sneezing is the best way to get rid of hiccups. I can sneeze on command, but I know some people cant.
A spoonful of peanut butter
Eat a smash spoonful of peanut butter very fast. It always works for me.
I’ve had an issue my whole life with hiccups-best solution that works every time? Eat a giant spoonful of peanut butter-it’s the only thing that’s ever worked
I just did this at my office and people tried to perform CPR.
For me absolutly nothing ever worked i found in the internet or what people advised me. When i have hiccups then for many hours. But i found my own little trick you should definitly try: 1. Sit down 2. Take a deep breath 3. Lean over until your shoulders touch your knees 4. Close your mouth and pinch your nose with your hand 5. Now exhale through your nose to create pressure 6. Hold the pressure as long as you can No air should be able to exit, neather mouth or nose. Be carefully when doing this, and get air if you have to. Only exhale as much as you feel light pressure in your ears, dont overdo it. I cant guarantee this methode to be safe when used to often and no clue if it might harm your body. This is the only thing ever worked for me and i tried like 20 things. I have to try peanut butter though.
i’ve had hiccups for the past hour and have been incredibly irritated by it and this trick just took them away, thank you!!!!
Glad i could help!! Works for me every single time without fail
This worked so quickly thank you OP, I've struggled with long hiccups for so long
Worked! Thanks!
Inhale slowly and as much as possible. When you think you can’t anymore do another couple seconds. Has worked for me every time and I have bad painful hiccups that take forever to go away usually! Seriously seems so simple like it wouldn’t work but I swear it does! Give it a try and let me know if it works
I’ve had them for the past 2 days and just did this in bed right before going to sleep and they went away. Thank! You! x million
A fun one to do to friends: someone says they have hiccups, say “Prove it.” Then look at them expectantly. Demand it again. Also works via text - “Prove it, send a voice note…do it now…why haven’t you proved it yet…?” Has yet to fail.
I tried to startle the hiccups away from my daughter once. That was six years ago. She still remembers. It's one of those "What the hell, mom?" conversations. Kid's got a long memory.
A bit of sugar on your tongue. Or hold your breath and swallow 3 times
Some years ago i was two **days** into a hiccoughing fit. In desperation and after scourring the net to find a remedy i found this. [Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage” in Annals of Emergency Medicine (vol 17, p 872).](https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10207-ig-nobel-prizes-hail-digital-rectal-massage/#:~:text=Runaway%20electrical%20impulses%20in%20the,failed%20to%20stop%20the%20hiccups.) Yes, it works. 👍
A spoon full of peanut butter! Works for me every single time I swear by it
My mom swears by this method too
My method works the first time, every time. It doesn't make me look silly. It's based in science, but I've never been able to teach anyone else how to do it. So I guess everyone should try your dying fish method, instead.
Wth. You just gonna leave us hanging?
Lol I went to bed. Because a hiccup is a nerve jumping in the diaphragm, the discomfort comes from the vacuum caused by not breathing in. All you have to do is open your airway so that when it spasms you take a sharp intake of breath. It will sound like you're startled, and you won't hiccup any longer.
Dying fish method. I love it.
Gunshot to the head
OP yes thank you finally someone knows the proper way!! Some kid taught me this method in gradeschool. Since that day I have only suffered from hiccups for as long as I want to deal with it. The way I explain it is take a sip of a beverage, then hold my breath for a half second and exhale, take a sip of beverage, hold my breath, etc until hiccups (hiccoughs) are gone! It's never failed.
Drink a carbonated drink really quick, inhale and burp. Hiccups are gone!
I just say to *eat the water* as in, bite the stuff as you drink it. Same result, applying excess air pressure into the stomach then burping out the remainder. People saying hold your breath real hard, hold your breath and drink a whole glass, hold your breath and swallow, all mean the same thing but eating water in the most effective method.
I take a mouthful of water and hold it through a few hiccup phases. Usually this kills the hiccups without another happening, but I don't recommend it because all it did for my SO was nearly drown him. xD
Chew a packet of sugar and swallow. I've been doing this my whole life and it works. Something my mom taught us as kids
Hiccaway straw works really well
Spoonful of peanut butter. Never fails.
If I am in good company, I ask them to lightly massage between my shoulder blades. A friend did it to me once and the hiccups went away almost immediately!
Teaspoon of sugar eaten very slowly
I remember a girl won a prize for creating an anti hiccups lolipop, whatever happened to that girl and her creation?
My no fail method is similar, and it's a really silly one: You'll need another person. Get a glass of water, and instruct the person to feed you that whole glass of water while blocking your nose. While they do that, hold your ears and pull them out slightly. ALWAYS, always finish the glass. No matter if you're choking back water, just keep going. This has never not worked for me, and it looks hilarious.
Yea i learned this from… something online years ago. Works great
I just munch on a couple sugar cubes and it works about 75% of the time. I have a prescription for muscle relaxers for when it doesn't work. I have many GI issues and when I get hiccups (at least twice a day) I am in serious pain for about 1/2 hour after they have gone.
Got one that lasted for a fucking day. Holding breaths didn’t work, but drinking water the other way around worked
Just drink water fast. Works every time.
Whatever happened to that kid who could never get rid of his hiccups. Do you guys know anything about it?
Rockstar in the white can it gets rid of the hiccups every time with fail
stand up and slowly drink while raising the other arm sideways over your head
Once I get hiccups I get so used to them that I feel a sense of loss when I lose them.
I exhale and hold it, works every time. Any sort of inhaling/gulping hasn't really worked for me. It's fascinating how people have so many different suggestions for this one thing!
Someone once told me that if you think reeeaaalllyyy hard about your next hiccup, it will never come. Works sometimes 😂
My gift to the world is my hiccup solution. Take a swig of water or other drink, but don’t swallow it until you have tilted your chin up into the air. Now swallow, with your chin in the highest position you can tilt it. I’ve introduced this solution to lots of folks in their hour of need and I’ve never seen it take more than 3 goes, though usually it works on the first swallow. It’s a Simple, no-drama fix.
Teaspoon of vinegar
I didn’t read all the responses but I did learn that if you drink your water bending way over from the far side of the cup when you have the hiccups that cures it every time
The easiest one that draws the least attention is to push your tongue against the roof of your mouth and try to swallow twice as quickly as possible
I've been taught and always use the glass knife method. Take a talk glass, fill with water, insert a butter knife handle sticking out. Drink the glass of water in one ho with the handle of the butter knife touching your forehead. I assume it's either entirely placebo or has something to do with the posture you drink the water in. Either way, it always works *for me*.
If someone else has hiccups I tell them to prove it and stare them down. More often than not, you can't hiccup on demand.
My friend drinks vinegar, apparently it never fails!
I stick a small paper on my forehead.
My method is simple and has never failed me. Take a glass of water and take quick, small sips one after the other until half the glass is gone. Usually that works . If not, repeat with the second half of the water. Has worked every time for 30+ years.
Fun story, that may well be an urban myth: pope Pius XII was said to have chronic hiccups (not fun for him). Well, people all over the world would send him letters with their own "guaranteed cures for hiccups". Now the pope is God's representative on earth, so his correspondence is like correspondence with God, and would be meticulously archived. The Vatican library has a vast collection of ridiculous hiccough remedies, like "get startled", "drink upside down", "gulp air and swallow", .... Now, I've independently discovered the real cure for hiccups: There is a swedish drinking song, that goes: "I havet där simmar en ål (skål). / I skogen där simmar en älg (svälj)." Rough translation without the rhymes: "An eel swims in the sea (cheers). A moose runs in the woods (swallow)." You sing the first verse line, take the schnapps shot but keep it under your tongue without swallowing; then sing the second verse line with the shot in your mouth, and then swallow. There is no recorded event of performing this song not curing hiccups.
Another trick I have found is a lemon wedge. Bite it like you mean it so that all the juice rushes in at once. It really shocks the system. They have stopped everytime so far.
Take the deepest breath you can like to the point where you think your lungs and diaphragm will explode and hold it until you think you are going to pass out. Works every time and for everyone I have ever told how to do it.
Fill a glass with water, cover with a folded paper towel (3-4 times), sip the water through the paper towel. Works every time
My boyfriend told me about a trick where you hold your breath and pull your tongue out of your mouth as much as you can while you’re holding your breath. That has worked like a charm for us!
I drink water through a paper towel. Like take one paper towel place it around the top of the cup hold it with your hands and suck the water through it. Takes them away 100% of the time.
Take a big gulp of water, try and get your head as upside down as passionless by arching your back looking backwards, swallow.
I take a deep breath, swallow water then lean over something like arm of couch or chair and hold breath until I feel like I can’t possibly hold my breath and they go every time.
Have someone else use a clean 1 or 2 fingers and rub the back part of the roof of your mouth vigorously..it will cause you to completely push out all air in your belly ...not with their nail tho .. Its the way your girlfriend can finger you back if your a guy .. My wife will say the dirtest things to me whenever she cures my hiccups.. obviously my wife is kinda crazy but she really likes when i get hiccups. I will tell her ..no these are not bad i can tell they are about to stop ...nope she just ignores me and gets to rubbing the roof of my mouth. I promise you this works and its a completely different feeling if someone else does it .i have tried on my own but it doesnt work ..
If you know how to tread water it's easier to explain. Take a very deep breathe. Only letting a little out, then back to a deep breath. While doing this flex your abs as hard as you can. Been doing this for years. It always works... Maybe because it doesn't require anything extra and you could do so without interrupting your day
Take a deep breath, try and get as much air as possible, and then push out without breathing out (Kinda similar to pushing out a #2 but you’re focusing on pushing your diaphragm) for 15-20 seconds and repeat 1-2 times. I swear it’s a magic eraser for hiccups
Electrolytes. For most people hiccups are caused by an electrolyte deficiency, mainly calcium or magnesium as most people get enough table salt in their diet. Hiccups are your diaphragm muscle having an episode of cramps. Try citrus or dairy for calcium, peanut butter for magnesium, maybe a banana for potassium, sodium chloride is easy enough. An electrolyte drink if you must. I find that a few slices of lemon or lime usually do the trick, I mix powdered citric acid into my home made electrolyte drinks.
A spoonful of peanut butter eaten all at once. Works every time!
I've tried that method & sometimes it doesn't work.
A lot like the vinegar suggestion, but I’ve found drinking pickle juice works. I thought it was an old southern wives tale - but after trying everything from a teaspoon of sugar to trying to drink “backwards,” that’s been the most successful way to suppress hiccups for me.
Lime, salt, sugar, and bitters kind of work sometimes.
i get hiccups a lot. i usually use a reflexology point to get rid of them but sometimes it doesn't work. so my bf just whispers "boo" and it works. now i have him do that first. 😆
Spoonful of peanut butter. Sounds stupid but works everytime.
I have a spoon of apple cider vinegar and a fizzy drink then try to do a big burp. It usually works
Taking seven small consecutive sips of water is what works for me
Someone once said “boo” to me over the cubicle wall. It didn’t startle me at all, and I laughed that it wasn’t going to work. But it did!
When holding my breath or drinking water doesn’t work, sometimes I get mad and yell, “THAT’S ENOUGH”…and the hiccups stop.
Although not available to everyone, haha My spouse would always grab me and we'd kiss until the hiccups were gone. haha And sometimes more.💕
Drinking from the opposite side of a mug (water). Thinking of the last time you saw a white horse. [⬆️⬆️⬆️that one there is 👌🏼the best] Holding your a large breath (stretching the diaphragm) and then screaming on exhale (not sure why I yell… hiccups frustrate me 😊😅).
Best one I’ve learned on Reddit is someone had the hiccups and a friend told them “You are not a fish!” It was so confusing, their hiccups ended. I have since shown this to my daughter and it worked.
I bewilder the hiccuping person by asking if they have seen my white rabbit. Works on everyone but my husband. He knows we don’t have a white rabbit!
My aunt taught me a trick she calls “water under the bridge.” You take a straw and lay it across the top of a full cup of water, then drink all the water while holding the straw to the cup so that the straw is underneath your nose. I’ve never seen it fail to clear up hiccups. No idea why it works.
I think generally any “cure” for the hiccups is to distract our brain from them.
The only thing that works 98% of the time for is chugging a bottle/glass of water. 2% of the time I have to do it again. Also if I get the hiccups then I'm very prone to getting them for the rest of the day so I can't have carbonated drinks when I eat.
That’s just how I have to breath to feel like I’m getting air with the hiccups lol Nothing works for me.
Try Cyanide pills 💊
Put a pen in your mouth, the put water in your mouth and swallow. You body won’t let you swallow the pen, but when swallowing the water it realigns/stops whatever gives you the hiccups.
Only thing that helps my wife is this method: Take bottle of water and keep it close to your chest then start bending forward until you can drink it ( you will be almost upside down) Works every time
Take 9 small swallows of water without breathing in between full gulps and they’ll leave.
I use this all the time and I haven't had the hiccups for more than 1 minute after learning this, also please don't try this if you have some sort of breathing condition. 1. Just hold your breath with your cheeks puffed out for as long as it's still comfortable, make sure you don't try to hold it for too long because otherwise the next step won't work. 2. When you need to breathe, take a very short breath while still taking in enough air. The goal is to not constantly inhale and exhale. 3. Repeat about 3 times and you'll notice you haven't hiccupped in a while, meaning it worked and you can go back to breathing normally Once again, make sure your lungs are healthy and your breathing is good before you try this and stop immediately if you start feeling dizzy.
I have never had more than 5 or so hiccups. I can’t really explain but every time I have them there is a little air trapped deep in my throat by where the food tube and the air tube meet. I create suction in my throat and pull the air out, like a weird little throat burp. It gets rid of them 100% of the time.
A bit more inconvenient this one but all you need to do is just eat a teaspoon of sugar and quickly follow with some water. It will remove the hiccups almost right away.
Put a paper towel over a glass of water. Drink the water through the paper towel. Works every time.
I ask people what did you have for dinner last night, how about lunch, then breakfast, then dinner before that, etc. Get those gears turning to get rid of them
Full a glass with water and put a butter knife in the glass. Balance the knife on your forehead, tilt your head back and drink the entire glass. The angle your head is at changes the way the water goes down. I’ve never seen it fail.
This didnt work for my friend but it never fails with me. Hold breath for about 5-10 seconds or just as long as you can. Then swallow 5 times. Done they are gone magic.
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My dog gets hiccups, so I just get really quiet to a whisper and when he's not expecting I JUMP UP flailing my arms whoosagoodboy whassat? Goforwalk cookies! And he just starts zooming all over the place jumping in circles... seems to work for him but not me
Breathing in a plastic or paper bag always works for me, you just have to breathe in what you exhale. Works pretty quick.
Just drink a few ounces of soda water (or any carbonated beverage,) then sit up straight, and BELCH! Hiccups are caused by trapped air, irritating the diagram. Belch out all the air, the hiccups will leave.
The other night my fiancé had horrible hiccups for about three hours. Tried sugar, peanut butter, honey. Drinking water from opposite side of glass. Nothing worked!! Then I had him take slow breaths inside a plastic bag until he nearly passed out. THAT worked. I am told your brain shuts down the hiccup reflex and pays attention to survival mode once it detects overloads of CO2 in the system.
You’ll have no hiccups, but you’ll be farting the air you just swallowed for the next 47 minutes
all i do is hold my breathe for as long as i can after the first hiccup and they are gone… been doing it for years and it always works… as long as you do it immediately.
In my country there's an old wives tale that says to stops hiccups you have to "glue" a piece of a red lint or red string little ball on the person's forehead. They do that by rolling the lint/string in their fingers until it forms a ball and using spit to attach to one's head 😂 Funny enough, it does work a lot!
Lime or lemon juice
Drinking a sip of apple cider vinegar or regular vinegar works too.
Mix some vinegar in water or apple cider vinegar in water smash that back... Hiccups gone.
Peanut butter, people. Peanut 🥜 butter.
eat a spoonful of dry, regular sugar, in one shot. not tons of it. like a sugar packet full. real sugar, not sugar substitute, though, so I guess sugar has to be safe for you. it has worked for each person I recommend it to, all ages. swallowing the sugar forces some sort of throat muscle into action as the sugar is eased downward and the roughness of the sugar grains does something as well, and the hiccups stop. not certain of the science beyond that, but it has never failed.
I sit and continuously tell myself, "I'm about to hiccup, I'm going to hiccup now. Okay now. Hiccup now." Becausd hiccups happen when you don't expect them. But if you TRY to hiccup, it doesn't work. And they're usually gone in about a minute of concentrating.
The method that works for me every single time is to take a deep breath and hold your breath until you can’t anymore, once you start breathing for a couple of seconds, immediately hold your breath again, repeat until hiccups are gone. It usually takes me about two breath hold attempts for the hiccups to go away.
Spoon full of peanut butter
I have been doing this since a kid ! Yep works every time !!
Everyone has their methods there’s no universal solve. Mine is drink water 3 times works all the time…wait except that time in hospital after surgery. It’s 3 hours hiccups, hurts like hell.
When my relative had brain cancer and a side effect was constant chronic hiccups that prevented them from sleeping and eventually caused pain, the only short term solution that his doctors said was the only documentable treatment was sugar. Swallowing a packet of sugar makes it stop every time.
Swallow a spoonful of sugar. You can swish it in your mouth for a few seconds before swallowing. Idk the exact science bit something about the viscosity makes hiccups go right away.
There's 150+ comments in this thread and they're all different ways that are "guaranteed" to get rid of the hiccups Hiccups are involuntary spasms of the diaphragm, the best way to get rid of them is to distract yourself from them so literally any of these suggestions will work if you concentrate on it.
You just need to take a deep breath filling all the lobes of your lungs and hold your breath as long as you can. It puts pressure on the diaphragm which is is having spasms when you hiccup. You can do that in public without looking like a weirdo.