I usually hold the person's ears shut and have them drink a glass of water. Works everytime.
Or if I'm alone, drink water through a straw while holding my ears shut.
As a teacher, sometimes my students would get hiccups. I would always tell them that if they hiccupped one more time, I'd tell them a story. They never got to hear that story!!! They would even try calling me when they weren't at school because they had the hiccups! The story always chased the hiccups away!
i find if i just control my breathing with slow moderate deep breaths works for me...
Try Cinnamon. Just place a tiny pinch of cinnamon powder under your tongue. Cinnamon is an anti-spasmodic, in other words, it relaxes the muscle -- in this case, the diaphragm.
I have always gotten hiccups that last and last. I tried every remedy I could to no avail, until I was told to put my first two fingers over my pulse at the wrist and breathe in time with it. It works every time and I no longer get the hiccups for hours and hours.
I found years ago that you can stop the diaphragm spasm by simply sipping water but it’s all about the timing! Raise a glass of water to your mouth and without removing it inhale normally, sip, exhale, sip, inhale, sip and repeat until you feel the tightness go away. Do it slow and methodical so as not to let a hiccup sneak through ! I find It may take a couple of try’s and about 10 swallows before you get it right but it has even worked for my grandkids!
Green olives will cure them every time for me. I usually take 2 or 3, and hiccups are gone instantly. I suspect it has something to do with the salt content, but I don't really know for sure. I only know it never has failed for me.
. . . is the only thing that will get rid of my hiccups! How nice to see this remedy vindicated, as most people look at like I'm crazy when I suggest it.
Pressing on your closed eyelids gives almost immediate relief! I walked into a small bookstore one day and the clerk had loud hiccups that had been driving her crazy for an hour. I told her to press her eyelids and went about my shopping. I realized when I went back to the counter, she hadn’t had a single hiccup after she did that. I experience the same thing every time.
As a teacher when a child comes to me asking to go get a drink for hiccups Ijust keep looking into their eyes, not answering. After a short staring session, the hiccups usually disappear and the mystified child walks away and gets back to work.
