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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!
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.
Peanut Butter
Posted by Marty (Canoga Park, California) on 05/28/2007
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My 12-year-old grandson was having a bout of hiccups, and complaining noisily that it wouldn't go away. I took him with me to the computer, checked your web site, saw the remedy about a teaspoon of peanut butter. We went to the refrigerator and found a jar of peanut butter. I dug out a teaspoon of the peanut butter and gave it to him. Within a couple of minutes the hiccups stopped. Amazing!!
Peanut Butter
Posted by Brian (Lexington, Kentucky) on 03/30/2007
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Peanut butter cured my son's hiccups. My step son had the hiccups this morning. Hiccups are bad for him because he is going through chemo and hiccups sometimes cause him to vomit. I found the peanut butter cure on your website and tried it. It worked! I was so surprised and happy that I told my wife about it on the phone (she was at work) and she said that she had known about the peanut butter cure for years and had always used it. Thanks to Kristopher from Houston and to Earth Clinic.
Peanut Butter
Posted by Kristopher (Houston, Texas) on 03/20/2007
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A teaspoon of peanut butter has worked to cure hiccups for myself, my wife, my son, my mother and just about every other member of my family and any of the friends I've told.
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.
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
Sugar
Posted by Rick (Las Vegas, NV) on 10/06/2006
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Our son would get terrible bouts of hiccups. We tried "everything". One day while baking, my wife offered him a spoonful of sugar while he was hiccupping. He stopped within a minute! It's worked every time since, although a couple of times he needed a second spoonful.
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
Cause of Hiccups: Phrenic Nerve Chilling
Posted by Jayna D. (California) on 12/09/2023
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Years ago a chiropractor told me that they are caused by the chilling of the phrenic nerve. So, very often I get hiccups after eating something from the fridge or just being in the cold air. I take apple cider capsules daily and they have not prevented them. However, thankfully for me hiccups don't last very long. I'll try the solutions mentioned.
Baking Soda
Posted by Kathleen P. (US) on 05/26/2020
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For hiccups: burping, and some baking soda in lukewarm water.
Acupressure
Posted by Sassaphras M. (US) on 05/26/2020
I don't have an Adam's apple 🤔
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.
Tabasco Sauce
Posted by Mama to Many (Tennessee, US) on 11/02/2014
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My 12 year old daughter gets terrible hiccups. I used to get them like that too. (It was especially embarrassing one time when on a tour in a cave. The hiccups echoed!)
Anyway, she has tried many things. Honey often works. Recently we were in the car when she got them. We didn't have water or honey. We did have some groceries, including Tabasco sauce. Seeing how cayenne pepper is good for lots of things, I reasoned that maybe this would help, since it is a hot pepper sauce, though not cayenne. I spoke confidently when I suggested it because there can be a mental aspect to something working! She put a few drops in her mouth and her hiccups stopped.
Tabasco or placebo, I don't know. But she was glad to have them over with.
~Mama to Many~
Almond Butter
Posted by Donna (Houston, Texas) on 04/20/2014
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Peanut butter worked like a charm for my guy just now. He has had hiccups off and on for a few days now and was miserable. Yay for peanut butter!
