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Scandrea Started conversation Oct 27, 2004
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Does anyone know a cure for the hiccups? 
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Arisztid Lugosi Posted Oct 27, 2004
lets see...
umm....
sip out of a cup upside down.
scare yourself
breath into a paper bag
hold your breath, plug your nose, and drink as much water as you can bare wihout breathing... so you feel kind of like you're drowning...
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T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. Posted Oct 27, 2004
Vinegar normally works for
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Arisztid Lugosi Posted Oct 27, 2004
vinegar?
how does that work?
how do you use it?
none of the above actually work for me...
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Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! Posted Oct 27, 2004
BOOO
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Inkwash Posted Oct 27, 2004
Slow down your breathing and think calm thoughts while your diaphragm relaxes.
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Inkwash Posted Oct 27, 2004
But it's been 4 hours so I guess (and hope!) that you've stopped hiccupping by now. 
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Vicki Virago - Proud Mother Posted Oct 27, 2004
Actually....hiccups are a twitch in the diaphram....the control of the diaphram is the only way of stopping it.
Hold your breath, and "wiggle" your tummy muscles (strange, I know), then keep swallowing. The swallowing action involves the diaphram. Then, when you think you're running out of breath, breathe out in a controlled and slow manner....
I know...perhaps a bit too much "straight down the line", but as a sufferer of lots of hiccups, I've managed to pretty much cure them on my own now 
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Oct 27, 2004
I have been asked for vinegar at work by nurses trying to cure hiccups, this works with Alex, it takes 2 of you tho, put your fingers in your ears, get your friend to pinch your nose and feed you a glass of water, drink as much as you can
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Ormondroyd Posted Oct 27, 2004
Bush is 10 points ahead in the polls!
, it's not true. I just thought a fright might do the trick.
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Inkwash Posted Oct 27, 2004
Nice try!
You had *me* going for a while there though and my pulse went through the roof!
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T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. Posted Oct 27, 2004
I think how much vinegar depends on how bad the hicoughs are. The most I've ever needed is 2 tea spoons
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nicki Posted Oct 27, 2004
there is plenty of wierd and wonderful methods to cure hiccups isnt there?
i just hold my breath and swollow at the same time for about 4 swallows then collapse panting then they usually go!
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Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) Posted Oct 27, 2004
No ones ever told me either, I just fill up a food sample container of vinegar and take it to where it's needed
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Scandrea Posted Oct 27, 2004
I ended up using the knife and water trick-
Put a knife in a glass of water, blade down. Rest your forehead on the handle of the knife, and drink!
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Oct 27, 2004
Traveller in Time 
hipping on his head
"As I was thinking hickups where a signal from your body, you needed something to drink.
Actually I only ever do it once, then send a relax signal to the diafragm and go for a glass of water 
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manson_rocks - When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed. Posted Oct 28, 2004
I had the hiccups earlier today... I held my breath for a little while, and they went away. But by then I had woken my brother (he was sleeping in the room I was in, in fact, the same one I am in right now) but it was about 4 pm then anyway, so he probably needed to wake up.
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- 1: Scandrea (Oct 27, 2004)
- 2: Arisztid Lugosi (Oct 27, 2004)
- 3: T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. (Oct 27, 2004)
- 4: Arisztid Lugosi (Oct 27, 2004)
- 5: Jackruss a Grand Master of Tea and Toast, Keeper of the comfy chair, who is spending a year dead for tax reasons! DNA! (Oct 27, 2004)
- 6: Inkwash (Oct 27, 2004)
- 7: Inkwash (Oct 27, 2004)
- 8: Vicki Virago - Proud Mother (Oct 27, 2004)
- 9: Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) (Oct 27, 2004)
- 10: Ormondroyd (Oct 27, 2004)
- 11: Inkwash (Oct 27, 2004)
- 12: T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. (Oct 27, 2004)
- 13: nicki (Oct 27, 2004)
- 14: Reefgirl (Brunel Baby) (Oct 27, 2004)
- 15: Scandrea (Oct 27, 2004)
- 16: Inkwash (Oct 27, 2004)
- 17: Scandrea (Oct 27, 2004)
- 18: Inkwash (Oct 27, 2004)
- 19: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Oct 27, 2004)
- 20: manson_rocks - When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed. (Oct 28, 2004)
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