How do I get rid of hiccups?

Plug your ears and nose, and drink several gulps of water. You need someone to help you!

Or, like I did once. My daughter had the hiccups in the car. I slammed on the breaks and screamed. It worked. Ticked the wife off, but everyone else was laughing.
 
Yes, I very much second this suggestion above. Place a glass of water with a straw on a counter. Now drink while plugging your ears.

If that doesn't work, try some sort of concentration game. This one was actually designed to help cure hiccups!
 
A bit of corn syrup or any other super-sweet syrupy stuff seems to help when I've got the the hiccups...
 
I've always put a napkin over a glass of water and drunken the water through the glass... It seems to work for me.

edit: Wow, now that i think about it, it sounds really weird, but it hs worked for me before... :eek:
 
Interesting that people are suggesting holding your breath while gulping water. That always works for me, except that I sip the water slowly. Hasn't failed yet.

mills04 said:
Get a glass of water and a straw, drink through the straw while putting your fingers in your ears.
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That just makes the water come out of my @$$ instead. :D
 
A friend of mine just showed me a trick and it always worked until now.

She came to me when I had a hiccup and told me I’d get 1 Euro for the next hiccup. I couldn’t do it anymore. I tried it with my wife and it worked, too. Now, whenever she has a hiccup, thinking she would get money for the next one is enough for her to stop.
 
Veldek said:
A friend of mine just showed me a trick and it always worked until now.

She came to me when I had a hiccup and told me I’d get 1 Euro for the next hiccup. I couldn’t do it anymore. I tried it with my wife and it worked, too.
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Apologies for reviving a slightly old thread, but I thought I'd report back on this method after trying it out for myself. The missus had an attack of hiccups over the weekend so, remembering Veldek's tip, I promised her that she could have a Pound for the next one.

Her hiccups lasted for another ten minutes and you owe me a quid. :( ;)
 
This may sound really weird but it works for me....

take a steak knife and put it in a tall glass of water (blade down) then drink the glass of water.

Works everytime for me.

(I use an older steak knife, not one of my new ones)
 
I have two methods. First I try the holding your breath trick. I try it until I either hiccup again or I am about to passout. If I am about to passout, then they are gone. Otherwise I proceed to the second method. I take a spoon full of sugar dry and that works 100% of the time.
 
I'm going to assume that they're gone by now. ;)

However, there are only two valid ways that I know of to get rid of hiccups and one of them was listed (I was a bartender and in the restaurant business for 10 years). Vinegar should work-- but kinda nasty.

The second method which I have never seen NOT work and one that I handed out all the time from behind the bar was a wedge of lemon with bitters poured over it. You bite into and eat the lemon wedge.
 
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