Do you get hiccups often? How do you stop it?

I do get hiccups once in a while, what I do is I just hold my breath count to 15 and then swallow.. If that doesn't work then I'll drink lots and lots of water. hehehe. and If that still doesn't work, I just recently found out that laughter can make it go away. hehehehe. cause once I was getting hiccups while I'm at the office, and my teammate made some jokes, I laughed at it, then after that the hiccup was gone. this happened twice, so I concluded that laughing is a cure for hiccups. hehhehe.

I seldom get hiccups nowadays but i recall getting one when i was working then as a call center agent. I can hear the other person I'm talking with laughing on the other line, I was so embarrassed but it's against company policy to hang up the phone on a caller so I have to push the pause button every time i hiccup LOL. I still can't help but laugh on that experience up to now. According to some, a hiccup is a sign from your body that there's something wrong with it, it just like an alarm so you have to do things to distract your thought so it will go away. Getting surprised is one way to get rid of it which often works with my kids. Cheers!

I seldom get hiccips ,this phenomenon has it's specific case of environmental.It is said that hiccups happen when eat meal too fast,too hot.Under normal circumstances,it takes a few minutes to quell.There are some self-treatment of small recipe,you can try.For example,eats a spoonful sugar dryly,stoops to drink water,chewing and swallowing dry bread.

Hi Buchi, You know this hiccups is considering as a sign of physical growth. I don’t know whether it is a myth or truth. If this happens to a small baby then elder people is asking to allow the baby to place down and giving water to drink. I think may be some scientific reasons behind it, if the baby lie down then the hiccups may stop soon it would be the fact. I heard this belief in our state only. It won’t happen with me very often. If it happens I usually drink water even if we didn’t drink water it may stop after some time.

[b]Oh, yes! I get them often! And I have found a sure-fire cure! I keep it in mind always, as my hiccups are so violent & noisy, I have to stop them as soon as I possibly can! I got this remedy many decades ago, by the way, from one of those "free" government pamphlets printed in Pueblo, Colorado. It was about cures for everyday problems, & when I saw the one on hiccups, I seized upon it, desperate for a cure, & to my great surprise, it worked instantly! It helps to first know what hiccups are, the better to understand how & why it works. Your diaphragm is spasming. There's a small flap of tissue that will close over the epiglottis to block out anything that shouldn't go into your windpipe. It stays put, most of the time, but a glitch in your system (caused by several different thing, from swallowing too much air to just being stressed)can set it into unwarranted action. It flops over the pipe, in repeated spasms. The "hic" is the sound of it closing, & the "cup" is the sound of it opening. What you have to do is interrupt those spasms. It's an electrically-based spasm, given the nature of your brain, so any little shock will make it cease immediately. But rather than sticking your finger in the neareest wall socket--a tad drastic-- try a chemical shock. The pamphlet recommended a spoon of straight sugar, or a sip of vinegar. Eew. Neither appealed to me, but then I had an idea. I love the taste of "kosher" dill pickle juice. It's tasty, AND, it also has sugar & vinegar in it! So I tried it at the very next opportunity, & no more than 2 tiny sips later--my hiccups were history! Yaaay! I keep a jar of that stuff chilled in my fridge at all times. Goes great in some salads, too! Maggiepie WHERE ARE any OF OBAMA'S RECORDS?!?[/b]

I use the water method. I hold my breath and down a glass of water without stopping to take breaths. It usually works for me. I don't get hiccups often though. I'm not sure about all those other methods like scaring, or breathing into a paper bag as what a friend of mine used to do. I personally find those methods funny.

I get hiccups every now and then but not very often. I usually try to hold my breath for a while to make them go away. It works sometimes but not all of the time. I have heard that scaring someone would stop their hiccups too but I have never seen it work.

I rarely experience hiccups now as compare dot when I was still young. I have read somewhere that hiccups are some sort of modified respiration due to some spasm in the diaphragm. This will usually create some problems with the body's gas. Then hiccups occur. Well one way perhaps is to hold your breath since this will basically re adjust your breathing and retain some carbon dioxide. Some people say that drinking water also helps. Well, I guess its just the same as holding your breath. Its not the drinking that stops the hiccup but rather the effect on drinking. If you consider, the moment you drink the water, you also hold your breath. So in a way, its just the same as holding your breath. Some people also say to stop a hiccup is to give the guy a good scare. Again, when you are scared, you tend to hold your breath thus I would say, holding your breath would be the best solution.

I do have my share of hiccups but its not very common. There were instances that I did have hiccups. Well, hiccup is a modified form of respiration that is usually done by your system to control and balance the system of gas. When there is to much oxygen in your blood, the body will tend to create a hiccup so a to interrupt the breathing and lower down the oxygen. A great way to stop hiccup is to hold the breath. Considering that as you hold your breath the oxygen is lowered. Drinking water can also help considering that as you drink, you also hold the breath. Well, when someone frightens you then you also hold your breathing is also interrupted and obviously the oxygen is lowered. Among the choices, I think holding the breathing for a few seconds would be the best option to stop hiccups.

If I get hiccups I usually take 7 small sips of water, why 7, I don't know but it works for me. I've tried the scare thing and it doesn't work, but the small sips of water do.

hiccups may occur when we eat and drink while we were talking, usually to treat it I just need to drink several glasses of water so the rest of ingested food that is soluble.

No I don't get them often. And if I did get them I drink water to try to get rid of them. Or hold my breath for a few seconds to try and get rid of them. Someone scaring me never worked to get rid of them. Some people go through the hiccups more then others do.

I would usually drink some water, but I always believe that it always works if somebody scares you or tell you about something that will surprise you. I have experienced it before when I was younger. I got a hiccup and someone told me that my grandaunt saw me 'stole' a ring from the closet or something. I was so surprised *of course I didn't steal anything* but the hiccup was instantly stopped. It happened to my nephew recently as well. He was having hiccups and I signaled my mom to tell him something that would frighten him. It stopped immediately. Actually, it has happened many times, but I only shared a couple of them.

Swarnaji Yes right if some one frightens you it stops , all that is needed is to divert the attention,a sudden jerk on the neck helps, eating sugar or dry molasses without sugar helps. I had hiccups non-stop , for 4 days, reasons could not be known, but as per advise , i licked a mixture of honey with ash of burnt peacock feather helped, it has not recurred since 8 years, try if you have next time

You are right..The solution for stopping the hiccup varies. I usually hold my breath to stop the hiccup. Here are few tips fro wikihow.com that can help you: Holding your breath Take a deep breath. Hold for as long as you can. Exhale slowly. Open your mouth Open your mouth and keep it open for a couple of minutes. If you feel the need to swallow, do so, but try to keep your lips apart when you do. Water Method Fill a glass full with water. Drink all the water without stopping. Hold your breath and close your nose with your fingers. Gulp Make sure you are not wearing anything tight around your chest. If you are, loosen it. Keep gulping every few seconds, especially when you feel a hiccup might be coming. A couple of hiccups might escape, but with continuous gulping, hiccups should definitely be gone within 3 minutes. Looking at an object Divert your attention towards any object. Keep concentrating on the object. While concentrating, think hiccups are okay. Hiccups are not harmful. They can be overcome. The Drinking Method Get a 12 ounce glass of water Plug your ears with your fingers Plug your nose with other fingers at the same time Now pick up the glass with the remaining fingers Drink as much as you can as fast as you can Repeat the steps, if necessary. The 30 Seconds Cure 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. Try to not let any air out before you have completed the steps below. Swallow. You are not really swallowing anything but it seems that without this act, it doesn’t work. 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). Swallow again. This too will become more difficult as you go. 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. Exhale. Hope this helps you.

If you get the hiccups, try taking a few deep breaths. If that doesnt work, try drinking a glass of water and drink it down. I am sure this will help. Dont try any thing that involves taking deep breathes and having someone squeeze you. This can kill you. As hiccups are irritating they wont kill you. Its the remedies that people try that will. If you try taking a few deep breaths then guzzle a big glass of water this should relax the esophagus and allow the door that opens and closes to your stomach to relax as well. Good Luck dl

Hi, B,b. I just try to drink some water to see if that will help. Try that and wait for five minutes to see if that will do you some good.

Drink a water should do it fine. Hiccup actually is a spasm on your diaphragm. About somebody frightens us, it actually related to your neural system that affect your diaphragm. I often get hiccup when I'm eating too fast, or put too much food at once on my mouth. I stop my hiccup by drinking water or altering my breath pattern. I have a friend that have a hiccup disease, can't stop hiccup-ing for 3 days. He had to drink some medicine gave by a doctor to stop that.

Personally i dont have hiccups really often, but i have to say... i love it. The sensation is incredible, you know, the little jumps and the surprise that it gaves to you, you never now when a hiccup is coming. :) Cheers

I think the best way to stop hiccups is to give an solid shot on their face or on their tummy so their attention would be towards the pain nd u dont find those hiccups.if u keep on getting more continuously then it said that u may deelop some problem with ur heart so dont ignore it nd try to stop it.if u can provide me ur address i dont mine kicking ur a** to ur hiccups LOL.gud day.