GUARANTEED Cure for hiccups

Origin of the word hiccup

French "hoquet" - meaning "Little hic", which is the sound you make when you hiccup.

In English, the word evolved from

-hicket
-hickot
-hickock
-hickop
-hiccup

Later, some people thought it was "hiccough", as they thought it included a cough.


Cure:

1. Get a tall glass of ice and fill it with water.

2. Put a stainless steel utensil in the glass, business side down, where the handle sticks out. A knife works best.

3. Stir it around.

4. Make sure the handle of the utensil is touching your friend's cheek or face while they drink from the glass.

5. After a few sips, their hiccups WILL BE GONE!

TA - DAH! I know, it's crazy, but it really, really works; 100%! If I were a betting man, I would put any amount of money on it.


Other Remedies:

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Small Sips

1. get a small cup of water and take 10 sips swallowing each sip.

2.hold your breath and in your head count to 20 (the more force used to inhale the better).

3. drink the rest of the water!


30 Second Cure, with no props

Step 1: Start by inhaling through your mouth until your lungs feel full (when it feels like you cannot inhale any more). For overall best results, try to do this as quickly as you can. DO NOT LET ANY AIR OUT.

Step 2: Swallow. You are not really swallowing anything but it seems that without this act, it doesn’t work. DO NOT LET ANY AIR OUT.

Step 3: Now inhale some more. You don’t need to inhale a lot, but do get some more air in. It will start to get difficult to do this as you go, but keep trying. You obviously can’t suck in as much air as you did initially, but just a little will do (think of it as taking a “sip” of air). DO NOT LET ANY AIR OUT.

Step 4: Swallow again. This too will start to get difficult as you go. DO NOT LET ANY AIR OUT.

Step 5: Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you cannot swallow again. While it seems you can almost always suck in just a little more air, it is the swallowing that gets to be impossible. When you feel like you cannot swallow again, swallow again anyway. It will be hard to do, your face will probably turn red, and you may make squeaking sounds. But you CAN swallow one last time. By this time, your lungs should also be quite full and it should be difficult to get much more air in as well. While you should try not to let any air out, if you have really repeated steps 3 and 4 as many times as you can, you probably will end up letting a little out before you can take that last swallow. If you find that air keeps escaping out of your nose even early in the process, try squeezing it shut with your fingers.

Step 6: Exhale.

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