Question of the Day - Sunday, March 9th, 2025

[juhesihcaa]

Ride it out. I've never been able to stop them.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Drink lots of water very fast until I can't breathe. If that doesn't work, I'll hold my breath while trying to swallow. Supposedly honey is supposed to help, but it doesn't usually work for me.

 

[BDutch]

Slowly drink water.

 

[Sally PB]

Firmly pinch my earlobe between my thumb and index finger. Works every time for me.

 

[Sally PB]

My fifth grade teacher had a novel way to end hiccups, if one of the students started hiccuping. He would call that person up to the front of the room and challenge them to "a hiccup race."

Diane Ardwin got the hiccups. To the front of the room she went.

Mr. Festerling: "I'll count to three, and then we'll see if you or I hiccup first. One, two--"

Diane: HIC!

"No, you have to wait for me to count to three. We'll start again. One, t--

HIC!

"Diane, you have to wait for me to count to three so that--

HIC!

"Go get a drink of water...."

 

[Luckyhen006]

Waiting it out, Or holding breath.

 

[Gill-b]

I am with @sourland. I drink water bent over, upside-down.

 

[fowltemptress]

This is the first I've heard of antacids helping hiccups. Then again, antacids weren't really something that was in our medicine cabinet, so that makes sense. I'd never in my life heard of witch hazel until I was in my 30s, and my husband told me his family never kept pepto bismol or the like. Medicine cabinet staples seem to vary quite a bit across families.

I wait the hiccups out.

 

[fowltemptress]

Firmly pinch my earlobe between my thumb and index finger. Works every time for me.

I thought my stepfather was pulling my leg when he told me this is how he deals with hiccups! I owe him an apology.