I'm always baffled every time I had them. I really don't know why hiccups occur in the human body, or what process in the body create the effect. My other question is, what is a real effective way of stopping hiccups, I've tried holding my breath and drinking water but nothing helps.

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Hiccups can get real annoying sometimes every time i have hiccups i drink alot of water and hold my breath a couple times it seems to work for me..

 

 

 

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I commonly get the hiccups, and have developed a effective way of stopping them
when you hold your breath about 3-4 seconds later you should feel a hiccup being suppressed if hiccups continue then continue holding your beath
PS when holding your breath hold as much air as your lungs will hold or it will not suppress the hiccup enough for it to stop
It Works!

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That is the only remedy that worked so far in my life. Every time I get hiccups my mother scares the sense out of me, I am so scared that usually I would forget I even had any hiccups!

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Honestly, I haven't had any hiccups for over a year! i don't know what causes them, as I see no reason for why they exist either.

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I usually have hiccups when I drink soda, which is why I'd so much love to see fizz-less sodas come out in the market. When I get hiccups, I try my best to be extremely aware of them. I breathe much more slowly and, when I sense the onslaught of a fresh hiccup, I try my best to suppress it without holding my breath.

Blah! It's kinda hard to describe what I do but suffice to say that holding my breath doesn't work for me. Neither does eating a spoonful of sugar, drinking water from the far side of the glass or fright. The last one actually aggravates the condition 'coz I'd find myself choking some times

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one trick i came to learn to stop a bad case of hiccups is by plugging your ears with your fingers for about twenty seconds. the theory that was espoused is that by sticking your fingers in your ears temporarily, it short-circuits the nerve that control hiccups, which results in the interruption of the hiccup cycle. not recommended when you're having a bad bout of hiccups when your boss is talking though.

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This method to stop hiccups works like a charm for me. Not sure if it will help you, but it's probably worth a shot.

1. Prepare a glass of water out (can be normal temperature or warm)
2. Hold your breath for 10 seconds, no less. If you hiccup halfway, you'll have to start all over again.
3. Gulp down the glass of water after the 10 seconds and the hiccups should be gone.

Normally, only once is sufficient. If you are still hiccuping, try the procedure again. And if it still doesn't work, you might have to find another method for yourself.

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Hiccuping is a strange phenomenon that mostly happens when your having indigestion, so drinking a lot of water seems the best choice.

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I had to make a paper about it in my Health class last semester, and I actually remember some stuff from it (which is surprising). here's a summary:

Causes: To "bump" heavy pieces of food that are stuck in esophagus by "shaking" them. It can also be caused by overeating, or overdrinking (doesn't really matter, tha cause is the same - enlongation of your stomack)

Mechanics: an enlongated stomack activates a nerve that recieves an electrical impulse from the brain and your diafragm thus shrinks rapidly and creates a "bump" that you feel. With that bump the volume inside you changes rapidly also, thus you exhale and inhale during the hiccup - and make the weird sound

Reasons: To protect the food from being kept in esophagus for too long by blocking access to all the rest of the food and thus make you starve to death in the end

How to prevent: Don't eat a lot during one meal, eat a little, but more frequently. Same with water, or any other liquid (Consider MASS instead of the volume - mass is the thing that pulls the stomack down)

How to stop: Well... a bad idea would be to become anaeroxic and just throw out. A better way to do that is to start breathing very slowly, or use a plastic bag to inhale and exhale rapidly. Usually that helps in several minutes, but sometimes there are those weird cases - like a girl that was hiccuping for five weeks in a row without stopping - then she was prescribed special pills, etcetera. Usually it just goes away on its own once a portion of "heavy" food is digested - so - try to stimulate the production of your stomack acid (actually, HCl) by thinking about something very tasty that you enjoh eating, even if you are not hungry.

Hope, that helps.

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