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Drink Upside Down
Posted by Penny (Columbus, Ohio, USA) on 12/20/2007
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I am 56 years old and my grandmother taught me to drink water upside down. It works 100% of the time. As previous posts mentioned you must drink with your upper lip on the rim and drink while bending over and sucking air at the same time. It's weird sounding until you finally figure out that it works every time.
Replied by Bryan
(Port Vue, Pa)
05/08/2010
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Drink Upside Down
Posted by Anna (Waxahachie, USA) on 10/17/2007
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whenever i have hiccups, i just bend over and drink water, it works every time
Drink Upside Down
Posted by Smiles (Fruitland, U.S) on 07/11/2007
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re: Drinking up-side-down- hiccups -- My brother taught it to me a few years ago. It has never failed me yet. Just get as much water in your mouth as you can, put your head between your knees, and swallow. Every once in a while you'll have to do it two or three times, but it usually works on your first try.
Replied by Ajeeth
(Toronto, Canada)
01/20/2012
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Replied by Zuely
(Batavia, Ny)
05/18/2012
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Drink Upside Down
Posted by Luisa (Boca Raton, FL) on 12/02/2006
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Drinking water upside down is the only thing that works for me. It NEVER fails. Just make sure that you bend down at the waist and put your head down, and then drink with the rim of the glass on your upper lip instead of the lower lip, just like the person before me said. I have done this for years and it is the only thing that works. When I tell people to do it they think I am crazy, but when it works they are amazed. :D
Drink Upside Down
Posted by Christina (Silverdale, WA)
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I always try holding my breath first, as that is the easiest, but if that doesn't work, I drink upside down. Bend over at the waist and take a drink of water, putting the rim of the cup on your top lip instead of the bottom one. It is important to swallow while still upside down. This has had and almost 100% success rate for me, although it gets me some strange looks :P
Drink Water Through Paper Towel
Posted by Tiffany (Asheville, Nc) on 01/03/2013
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To get rid of hiccups: Place water in glass and cover lid of glass with a paper towel. Drink water in glass through the paper towel. No more hiccups.
Replied by Saba
(Mentor, Oh)
02/13/2013
Drink Water With Spoon in It
Posted by Grace (London, Uk) on 10/15/2012
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I have had hiccups all day and tried holding my breath, which stopped the hiccups for a while but then they came back. I also tried drinking water upside down which I found hard to do and it did not work.
Thank goodness for your website! I looked up remedies and was sceptical about the one describing drinking water with a spoon in it but I tried it, making sure to use a big tablespoon and keeping the handle next to my cheek the whole time as I chugged down a big glass of water and now my hiccups have completely disappeared!
Thanks again earthclinic community. This site is the best site for finding great home remedies.
Drink Water With Spoon in It
Posted by Jerry (Albany, New York) on 10/23/2008
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Hi, Jerry from Albany Ny again..I just wrote to you about my hemorrhoids problem and hopefully you'll email me back with your suggestions. However, I just remembered a cure for Hiccups that an old time waitress gave my friend and I after we were out drinking and stopped for breakfast.
She told my friend (who was hicupping for about half-hr. that she would be right back..She came back with a "Glass" not plastic of water with a spoon in it..She told him to drink the water but you must let the spoon constantly touch your cheek..
Believe it or not, when he finished drinking the glass of water his hiccups stopped and never came back..
I thoght it was just luck, but several wks later at my sister's house she got the hiccups and I told her to do the same and she did and yep, they went away again...Fate, luck or whatever...
I would pass it on...
thanks...
Jerry..
Replied by Rachel
(Baytown, Tx)
11/22/2009
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Drink Water Without Breathing
Posted by Natural in NY (Upstate New York) on 08/29/2022
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I can't believe I only recently learned of this. My mother actually told me about it. I had always tried unsuccessfully to just hold my breath. It never worked well. Now, I take a deep breath and sip water to roughly the count of ten. It has worked perfectly two times now. It is my new favorite remedy for hiccups! I hope this helps someone else.
Drink Water Without Breathing
Posted by Dion246 (Central, Sc) on 10/18/2011
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While holding your breath, take a drink of any beverage. Soda or sweet tea works great, but I don't think it matters about the beverage. Usually one sip is all it takes.
Drink Water Without Breathing
Posted by Javagenie (Central, Vermont) on 05/08/2010
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This is by far the most affective way to get rid of hiccups. I tell my friends to do this all the time. It has never failed. They are always amazed at how well it works. However, I tell them to take individual sips for as long as they can hold their breath... but at least a minimum of 10 sips of water. Swallow each time.... don't guzzle it. I've been able to stop my own hiccups without water by just holding my breath and swallowing.
Another good thing to add into the remedy is staring. I tell them to concentrate on a single spot in front of them and don't take their eyes off of it. You have to try it... all of the other remedies work sometimes. This one works everytime!
Drink Water Without Breathing
Posted by C (PDL) on 02/11/2007
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The remedy I have used for 20 years: Drink 10 swallows of water straight without breathing. Works every time.
Grapes
Posted by Shurtygee (Hutchinson,kansas) on 12/08/2013
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I had hiccups for 4 days an orange or a few grapes would stop them for a few hours. So I starting eating 4 or five grapes as soon as the hiccups would start again after 2 days of eating grapes they stopped. I have been eating a few grapes and an orange most every day for two weeks and they have not come back, I don't want to go through that again, couldn't sleep, had really bad heartburn and was getting sore from strong hiccups.
by the way I tried drinking water upside down, holding breath while drinking etc. Hiccups never even slowed.Hope no one else goes thru hiccups that bad , but if you do I hope this helps.
Grapes
Posted by Peggy (Maple-Ridge, BC , Canada) on 11/01/2007
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Hiccups, Whenever I get a case of the hiccups I usually eat grapes! Red, green, black. It works! Just eat three or four grapes, its gotta be something in the skins!
Holding the Breath Technique
Posted by Teacheroftheyear (Pennsylvania, US) on 11/05/2014
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Contracted a seemingly intractable case of hiccups lasting a few minutes until I tried this remedy. Took a few breaths at first, but didn't hold the final one long enough. Tried the method again, two deep breaths and exhales followed by another deep breath; hold while the diaphragm is inflated. Hold breath until you cannot hold any longer.
A+ Remedy for a quick dispensing of the hiccups.
