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| Thread ID: 112045 | 2010-08-21 11:06:00 | how to stop hiccups?! | jareemon (5207) | PC World Chat |
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| 1130344 | 2010-08-21 12:17:00 | Well the internet is never wrong Some suggestions (www.ehow.com). From the Believe it or not file -- This is from SWMBO -- Personally I thought she was crazy when she told me last time I had them :waughh: :waughh: As she said - take two fingers and place them in the center of your eyebrows above each eye, move them up till you feel the edge of the bone, gently apply pressure -- after about 30 - 45 seconds you should feel them stopping.:confused: Last time I had the hiccups she told me this - I cracked up laughing while hiccuping -- she said I'll do it -- Bugger me it worked, and shes done it for other people as well. Its got something to do with a Nerve she says. If you do it right and dont have the hiccups you actually can feel a slight pressure in the back of your throat. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1130345 | 2010-08-21 12:17:00 | Don't try & beat Charles Osbourne. :) | BobM (1138) | ||
| 1130346 | 2010-08-21 12:19:00 | fill a glass to the brim with water, and then drink it from the top of glass. So basically your chin is in the glass. Best idea to do over the sink. | wmoore (6009) | ||
| 1130347 | 2010-08-21 12:25:00 | Cover yourself with honey and wait for the ants! | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1130348 | 2010-08-21 12:36:00 | All these ideas are pretty wacky. However I will tell you the strategy that works for me every time (which I invented). 1. Fill up a glass of water. 2. Take a mouthful of water and swallow it. 3. Then swallow again (without water) about 3-5 times. 4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 about 5 times and that should clear it. Anyway the technique suppresses the hiccups from occurring. Basically you have to swallow the next mouthful of water before you hiccup again or you'll likely have to start again as it resets all you've done. You might feel a bit bloated for 5mins but you can just burp it off. |
Orca (3098) | ||
| 1130349 | 2010-08-21 13:21:00 | More beer is always good, regardless of the ailment. For really severe hiccups, take a very strong laxative, you will be too scared to hiccup. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1130350 | 2010-08-21 21:29:00 | Well the internet is never wrong Some suggestions (www.ehow.com). As she said - take two fingers and place them in the center of your eyebrows above each eye, move them up till you feel the edge of the bone, gently apply pressure -- after about 30 - 45 seconds you should feel them stopping.:confused: If you do it right and dont have the hiccups you actually can feel a slight pressure in the back of your throat. Bizzare! But interesting! Where you've described there is indeed a nerve. It's usual function is to maintain muscular tone in the musscles of the upper eyelid. Damage to the nerve being evidenced by a droopy upper lid. If you feel carefully along the boney ridge of the brow you will feel a slight notch in the bone. The nerve runs down the forehead and passes through this notch (the notch exists to protect the nerve from blows to the brow). I'd be very keen to know if fine tuning your localisation of this nerve does the trick. As for my own hiccup strategy (it's difficult to do). My technique involves trying to keep the gullet open. I do this by very, very slowly 'sculling' a glass of water. The idea is not to sip, and not to swallow, but to let the water very slowly and continuously flow down your throat. Probably as with the other replies, concentration (and distraction) is the key element. You have my sympathies, I hate the hiccups! |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1130351 | 2010-08-21 21:53:00 | Bizzare! But interesting! Where you've described there is indeed a nerve. It's usual function is to maintain muscular tone in the musscles of the upper eyelid. Damage to the nerve being evidenced by a droopy upper lid. If you feel carefully along the boney ridge of the brow you will feel a slight notch in the bone. The nerve runs down the forehead and passes through this notch (the notch exists to protect the nerve from blows to the brow). I'd be very keen to know if fine tuning your localisation of this nerve does the trick. As for my own hiccup strategy (it's difficult to do). My technique involves trying to keep the gullet open. I do this by very, very slowly 'sculling' a glass of water. The idea is not to sip, and not to swallow, but to let the water very slowly and continuously flow down your throat. Probably as with the other replies, concentration (and distraction) is the key element. You have my sympathies, I hate the hiccups! i knew there were a few wacky ideas out there, but this is incredible lol i eventually got rid of them by drinking water, ironically it was the least weird suggestion :) |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1130352 | 2010-08-22 01:40:00 | You might laugh at this but - think hard about what you had for breakfast yesterday? supposed to be 80% effective. Don't ask me how but it works. |
BigBadBob (14963) | ||
| 1130353 | 2010-08-22 03:04:00 | Hold your breath for thirty plus seconds. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
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