hicup cure?

[Rising Phoenix]

[Iggo]

1. This one works, but can be messy.

Put a pen or pencil between your teeth and bite down gently. Tilt head back slightly and take a few drinks from a glass of water.

Something about letting an air bubble out that you can't let out if you swallow with your mouth closed. Not sure if that's true, but I've done it about 6 or 8 times and it's worked every time.

[TX Screwball]

2. Has anyone said ....

BOO!!!!!

[FloridaJudy]

3. Eat a teaspoon of sugar. Dry.

I don't know how this works, but it usually does it for me.

[rbnyc]

19. It stimulates the vegus nerve.

So does massaging above eyebrows.

[Orangepeel]

4. BOO!

:D

[mcctatas]

5. hold your breath?

while standing on your head, drinking water and shaving a badger...

[madeline_con]

6. It just dawned on me why I can never get rid of hiccups.

There's never a badger around when you need one!

[mcctatas]

7. A dearth of badgers could lead to prolonged hiccuping...

you could try substituting a wolverine...

[pokerfan]

8. Guaranteed cure!

Concentrate on http://members.home.nl/saen/Special/Zoeken.swf">this flash game.

Before you even realize it, your hiccups will be gone and your brain will have stimulated.

[harmonicon]

14. you bastard!!

That just took a year off of my life.

[pokerfan]

18. heh heh heh

:evilgrin:

[Betty88]

9. This always works

take a glass, put a teaspoon in it, fill with tap water. Now drink, but leave the spoon in the water.

[applegrove]

10. Get a glass of water. Lean over the sink and drink the water backwards meaning

the water should go down your throat at the roof of your mouth and down your throat from there.

[harmonicon]

11. lime juice, bitters, and... ?

crap... I can't remember. My brother's a bartender, and he swears by this concoction - just a shot's worth.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Light a book of matches and then dump them in a glass of water

and drink it (matches still in). Worked for MrG every time.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. Light a book of matches and then dump them in a glass of water

and drink it (matches still in). Worked for MrG every time.

[JackBeck]

15. 99% of the time, this worked at the bar:

Eat a slice of lemon, covered in sugar and bitters.

[Inchworm]

16. Go to a bar that smells like stale smoke

If possible find one where the doors are propped open with barstools to let in sunlight and has Sinatra tunes on the jukebox.

Order a Bloody Mary and ask for a shot of bitters.

Slam the shot then drink about 1/2 the Bloody Mary as fast as possible.

hehe. If that doesn't work ask the bartender for his/her cure. Don't fall for the "drink some pickle juice from the jar that has been behind the bar for 2 years" trick.

Are they gone yet?

:hi:

[AwakeAtLast]

17. Stand up and stretch your hands as high as you can

Your diaphragm is in spasm and needs to release it. Hope this helps!

[rbnyc]

20. Watched Real Stories of the ER...

...or some such show the other day. A woman came in who had had hiccups for 8 days. Tried every remedy I'd ever heard of. The ER doc, after trying many things, massaged abobe her eyebrows--this stimulates the vegus nerve which is somehow related to hiccups. It worked.

Sugar on the tip of the tongue aslo stimulates vegus nerve.