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If you have the hiccups, putting a facial tissue over a glass of water and drinking through it will fix them.
I thought it was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard, but I tried it and it works pretty much every time. Paper towels can work, but aren't as effective
Breathing in as much as possible and holding it for as long as possible usually works. S
It's sorta like allowing the diaphragm to fully relax, with the expanded lungs helping to lightening the tension from the ribs.
Yeah, apparently something along those lines has been shown to work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup#Folk_remedies the "non-commercial resource" referenced: https://hicfix.com/
Another approach that worked for me once:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup#Folk_remedies
I take 10 sips of water while holding my breath. Works.
The tissue basically forces you to take those sips very slowly, which I think is what helps. The holding my breath trick almost never works the first time for me.
For me it’s not holding my breath, but pushing as much air into my diaphragm as possible, kind of like swallowing air and pushing it down until it hurts.
Yeah, this works for me 100%. Just holding breath isn't enough, though.
May have to try this next time! Normally I gulp lots of air until I can't anymore, then hold my breath until I can't, and breath out really slowly. It works but can be uncomfortable to do at times.
Lightly waterboard self? I think I'll take the hiccups.
I bought a straw off of Amazon that helps, I imagine that it takes advantage of the same mechanism.
Free version: https://hicfix.com/
My husband and son get the worst, most painful full-body hiccups so when I heard about the straw I thought, why not? It does work. However, it’s stupid expensive for a plastic straw so it stays at home all the time and sometimes they get hiccups when we’re out. We’ve found that jamming a regular straw flat against the bottom of a cup and then sucking really hard will pretty much work. The trick is making it hard to suck the liquid up the straw, so that your diaphragm is really working for it, and it’ll help reset things.
So the cure for hiccups is milkshakes..
Who knew?