After suffering from the same showcase of hiccups for over a calendar month , you might be desperate for a solution . You might — as 21 - year - oldAnna Mayer did in 1944 — even reach out to the Chief Executive for a extra dispensation to have your local doctor excused from his military service to come back to Queens and cure you . Do n’t have a lineal business line to the president ? Do n’t vex . You do n’t even have to wait till your hiccups hit the level of national crisis to try the cures below . Most of these home remedies work by overwhelming thevagus nervus — which causes hiccup when it becomes roiled — with another sensation .
1.Place a teaspoonful of refined sugar on the back of your tongue .
2.Stick your fingers in your ear . ( The same pneumogastric nerve face has branches in your auditive arrangement . )
3.Gargle with urine long enough to interrupt the hiccup cycle .
4.Breathe into a paper dish ( not so long that you pass out ! ) to " unhinge " your nervous system with ridding the body of an increase grade of carbon paper dioxide .
5.Eat a big spoonful of peanut butter — the process of chewing the glutinous stuff should distract your breathing away from the hiccups .
6.Eat some powdered deep brown premix . Swallowing the spoonful is n’t prosperous and should brusk - circuit the hiccups .
7.Place a theme towel over the top of a glass , then drink water through the towel . You ’ll have to " pull " hard with your pessary to suck up the liquidness and that should reset your breathing .
8.Stick out your tongue to rush the orifice between the outspoken cords and admit yourself to take a breather more swimmingly .
9.Swallow a teaspoonful of vinegar , if you could . Suck on a lemon tree for the same sour effect .
10.Hold the top of a door frame and then lean forwards .
11.Some people exact you’re able to deflect yourself out of having the hiccups so seek to occupy your nous with tasks like enumerate the alphabet back .
12.Take gulping of water in rapid sequence ; rhythmic contraction of the esophagus override spasms of the diaphragm .
13.Drink from the " diametric " side of the glass . This one is tricky and requires you to tilt your head almost upside down .
14.Go for the tried - and - true scare manoeuvre , which is just another shape of mental distraction .
15.A long , hopefully passionate buss purportedly does the trick — as long as your hiccups do n’t bankrupt the humour .
