How do I get rid of hiccups?

[iSaint]

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.

 

[Jay42]

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!

 

[Clix Pix]

A bit of corn syrup or any other super-sweet syrupy stuff seems to help when I've got the the hiccups...

 

[realityisterror]

I always try and cough right when the hiccup is about to come out, but then again, what do I know?

 

[w_parietti22]

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...

 

[Thomas Veil]

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.

Get a glass of water and a straw, drink through the straw while putting your fingers in your ears.

That just makes the water come out of my @$$ instead.

 

[Veldek]

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.

 

[Chappers]

drink a little vinegar

works everytime.

 

[Jaffa Cake]

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.

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.

 

[Butler Trumpet]

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)

 

[topgunn]

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.

 

[DrStrangelove]

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.