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?
Here’s a method that’s always worked for me and others.
Get a glass of water, cool is preferred but any reasonable temperature is ok.
Take small, tiny, repeated sips from the rim of the glass, like an infant on a nipple, drinking and swallowing the water.
Do this for ten-twenty seconds and you’ll be rid of them.
Drink a cup of sugar water. Works every time.
A spoonful of peanut butter usually does the trick for me or my kids.
Same! It’s 100% effective for me. Never had it not work
In the order I try them, usually the first one works for me:
Hold my breath, cold shower, go for a run.
I hold my breath and “push” the air blocking my lungs from emptying with my mouth/throat.
Chug down a big glass of water on a single breath.
Swallow a pinch of salt. Don’t let it dissolve on your tongue; just swallow.
Try to burp. Especially right after a hiccup.
I would add that you can swallow air to create the need to burp.
This will sound like a joke, but is 100% true.
The most effective, clinically proven, method to cure hiccups is anal digital stimulation. Finger your butthole. You don’t have to go deep, unless you want to, just tease the opening though. You can have someone tongue punch your fart box as well because the method of stimulation doesn’t matter and I am sure the research ran out of funding before testing alternative methods of stimulation.
I think I’ll just squirt some mustard up my ass, but thank you for the advice 👍
You’re doing twice the work, but I ain’t here to kink shame.
Swallow a teaspoon of sugar. I read this when I was a kid, and it has always done the trick for me EVERY TIME I’ve done it.
My partner suggested this to me once and I thought, “nothing to lose” so I gave it a go.
Correlation does not imply causation, so I can’t guarantee that the sugar is doing anything at all, but every time except once I’ve had a teaspoon of sugar with hiccups, they have stopped.
To that end, I’ll be doing it as long as it keeps on seeming to have an effect.
Take a glass of water, bend over forward, drink from the opposite side of the glass while your head is upside down. Drink the whole thing. Cured!
Just quickly drinking a full glass of water usually does the trick
This is it, although I just put the water in my mouth and bend over then swallow. Swallowing water while upside down = 100% cure.
I used to do this with a straw while head was upside down. Worked really well when I was younger but haven’t tried it recently.
I do the thing where you drink water while rubbing your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Success rate is pretty low tbh.
I hold my breath for 2 breaths in a row. Works every. Single. Time.
Easy! Just disbelieve them!
Say the following out loud:
Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm
A spasm is defined as a random tensing of a muscle
If the hiccups are random, they will not appear in a pattern
Therefore these hiccups do not exist.
If you hiccup part way through, you have to start over. Once you get through the whole thing, your hiccups are cured.
Ok, now hear me out. This isn’t just a joke, I’ve had at least two people that I hadn’t seen in years call me up and say, I need you to tell me the hiccup cure, now!
My best theory as to why it works, is that you’re focusing on repeating the words fast enough, and/or it makes you breath irregularly and breaks the hiccups. Or maybe it’s just the magical power of the mind! Oooooooooh!
Oh. It never works when you’re drunk. I don’t know why, but drink hiccups seem to be resistant to the method.
You can also just memorize and recite this, comes in handy for more than just hiccups:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
There’s something about focus or attention. If I hiccup, as soon as I realize it’s happening it stops. If I’m drunk I might not notice for a bit and the hiccups will continue until I can bring my will to bear on them.
Hiccups come from a part of our brain that’s much less evolved. It’s the same thing that fish use to push water through their gills.
And just like breathing, it’s involuntary.
You just have to wait it out until that part of your brain stem remembers it doesn’t need to do that anymore.
Breathing is a little weird in that regard. It’s a natural instinct that you don’t have to think about, but when you do think about it, you can control it more or less voluntarily.
Hiccups are often way more annoying and way more on the involuntary side of reflexes.
I’ve researched hiccups before, and experts say that it’s basically the reflex that’s meant to start newborn babies breathing. After that though, it’s basically an unnecessary vestigial reflex.
I’m no expert though, I just know hiccups are fucking annoying as hell!
Hold my breath while thinking of a soothing song. Alternatively, actively try to hiccup.
Tablespoon of pickle juice. You’re then going to have the urge to eat a pickle. Don’t do it - they’ll come back.
A shot of vinegar or lemon juice will also do it in my experience
