What over the counter medicine can be used for hiccups?

Answer 1

Hiccups are spasmodic rises of the diaphragm beneath the lungs, usually caused by nerve stimulus or digestive irregularities. They can usually be stopped by increasing the carbon dioxide content of the lungs (breathing in and out of a paper bag, for example). Drinking water or consuming certain foods may stop hiccups, when stomach irritation is the location of the cause.

Hiccup Cures

*If you notice ALL the answers regarding drinking, swallowing upside down, singing hanging from an antique willow bush at noon on Tuesday while sipping wine,...the thing they all have in common is the need to hold your breath while disguised as some other nonsense behavior. Somewhere beneath the diaphragm is a nerve called the vagus nerve that causes spasms in the diaphragm and causes hiccups. The cure is carbon dioxide. Enough repetitions of holding your breath builds up enough carbon dioxide and stops hiccups.

This is the most consistent method for getting rid of hiccups. This only works though if you catch it early though.

In severe cases, there is a surgical procedure where they clip the nerve that makes you hiccup.

Suggested Methods

1. If you hold your breath and swallow three times you can get rid of your hiccups.
2. Get a bucket of water. Stick your head into the bucket of water 3 times and pull it out .
3. Eat a teaspoonful of sugar.
4. Take a breath and hold for as long as you can. Repeat until they are gone (do this sitting down in case you get light-headed).
5. Drink water from a cup upside down. Tip your head down, and drink from the opposite side of the cup.
6. You just plug up your ears (like shrugging your shoulders or pressing that little flap in front of the ear hole) and drink water for about 5-10 seconds.
7. Hold your breath, and go into a series of contortions for at least 20 seconds, then it stops.
8. Stand on your head.
9. Swallow 3 times with your mouth closed.
10. Pinch your nose and close your mouth and try to release air without opening your mouth or letting go of your nose. (Caution : some air may be forced through your tear ducts.)
11. Gulp down a glass of water.
12. Eat a piece of dry bread slowly.
13. Gargle water.
14. Hold your breath and count backwards from 20.
15. You need two people. Bill has hiccups Ben doesn't. Ben says to Bill, "I'll give you £5/$5 if you hiccup again and then Bill will not hiccup!
16. Breathe in through your nose, counting to 3, then breath out through your mouth counting to 5 repeat and hiccups are gone!
17. Swallow a tablespoon of peanut butter (for those not allergic), as it coats and suppresses the action of the vagus nerve and allows it to calm down. Other cures don't do that long enough for tough cases.
18. Another way is to take in a BIG breath of air, then without letting it out, take a sip of water and swallow hard. If you feel the water going down your throat, the hiccups should be gone!
19. Keep drinking something until the hiccups are gone.
20. Drink out of the wrong side of a glass. To drink from the wrong side of the glass, put water in a glass (not too full) and hold it under your chin so that you can put your lips on the opposite side of the glass rim from usual and slowly bend forward letting the water go into your mouth and sip several swallows, repeat until the hiccups are gone.
21. Another way is to fill a glass of water up all the way, Take a butter knife, put it in the glass with the water, and drink the water while looking up at the knife.
22. Hold your breath while drinking a glass of water, it works very well.
23. This sounds strange but it really works. Keep something really sour, such as; "Sweet Tarts, Sour Balls, Jolly Ranchers (chewy), or Ice Breakers Sours" around. Not a bad cure at all. Pucker up!
24. Stand on your head against a wall counting from 100 to 1. It will always get rid of them, but it takes time!
25. It takes a little bit of practice, but plug both your ears and nose at the same time, while taking as long a drink of any liquid (preferable not carbonated) through a straw.
26. Drink a cup of sugar-salt-water. Mix 2 cups of water and a teaspoon or sugar and add a pinch of salt
27. Tilt your head back, plug your nose, roll your eyes 7-10 times and say "vavavavava". Repeat steps once or twice.
28. Get someone else to help you do this. Make them say, "Look me in the eyes and let me hear you hiccup." You will stare and stare but you won't hiccup again. IT REALLY WORKS! (Mental suggestion cures at least 20% of all cases.)
29. Open your mouth real wide and the hiccups won't come out.
30. Fill a glass of water. Cross your arms over and put your index fingers in your ears (right index finger in left ear and left index finger in right ear). Get someone to feed you the water, and drink the entire glass without stopping.
31. Fill a glass with some warm water and put a little bit of water in your mouth, and count "1,2,3". Swallow it,and then repeat, but count "4,5,6" (so basically you count up) all the way up to 21. It works all the time. (It cures 90-95% of all hiccups)
32. Depending on how much your mouth can handle (with puffing your cheeks out) fill a glass or bottle with water and pour as much as you can have in your mouth into your mouth, and swallow.

Answer 2

The way to get rid of the hiccups that always works for me and my friends is really easy and simple and gets rid of them right away. Take a small cup and fill it with water and then bend over and drink the water from the side if the cup opposite of you. This works like instantly!

My math teacher taught me this trick, but if you try to hiccup 3 times in 30 seconds that usually gets rid of it for me!

Answer 3

Try tipping your head upside down and drinking water.

Think of a "White Horse" (in short distract yourself, staring at a lighter or a match are other examples.)

Take 1 teaspoon of sugar (not substitute) and place it under your tongue.

Hold your breath, count to 5 exhale and hold. Count to 6. Inhale and hold count to 7, exhale and hold count to 8. Breath normally there after.

There is speculation that hiccups may be an artifact of evolution when we had gills. The last exercise (the 5,6,7,8) is an attempt to correct the breathing and timing. As I often get hiccups when I drink with a straw or eat too fast I have found the 5,6,7,8 method more effective then other. The timing may vary by the person. People with high lung capacity may need to hold their breath longer. The system is still the same, add 1 second at each point.

Answer 4

here are a few that i know of !

holding your breath for 30 seconds

putting your head in water

indigestion tablets usually work !

glass of milk

someone making you jump

do a cartwheel

if i hear of any more ill add them for you :}

Answer 5

1. hiccus are caused by a mishap in ur diaghpram so you can breathe in and out slowly then drink some water
2. Eat picules
3. plug your ears while drinking water
4. lay upside down with a clean sock in your mouth
5. have someone scare you
6. or (if your alone) scream your head off

Answer 6

the number one way to cure hiccups is to put your middle and pointer fingers together, with both hands, and then put them above you eyebrows and press down... i saw this episode of untold stories of the er and this girl had hiccups for 8 days straight and the doctor was trying everything to stop it. the last thing they did was put his fingers above her eyebrow and it worked. nothing else did, not even a shot that they gave her that would stop everyone else from hiccuping

Answer 7

There are tons of ways to get rid of hiccups, but the fastest ways is to pull on your tongue, swallow water really fast, get a paper bag and blow into it, but not too long, you can get lightheaded, and the last one, that I would like most is to hold your breath and swallow 3 times. If any of these worked for you make sure you like this and pick an emoji. See ya'll!

Answer 8

You don't need to take any meds to cure hiccups. Just have a little peanut butter!

Answer 9

i found the best way to get rid of hiccups. you get a liquid milk works the best. you then look up and drink but you need to leave gaps between gulps to let air though.

Answer 10

Bread in a plastic bag for five minutes

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