Top 10 Best Ways to Cure Hiccups

Hiccups can turn from mildly amusing to seriously annoying in about the time it takes someone to ask why you are making that noise. They happen when your diaphragm contracts involuntarily, followed by a sudden closing of your vocal cords that produces the familiar "hic" sound. Most episodes disappear on their own within a few minutes, but you may be eager to speed things along when each hiccup interrupts your conversation, meal, or attempt to relax.

You have plenty of simple tricks people swear by, even though scientific evidence behind many home remedies is limited. If your hiccups continue for more than 48 hours, however, you should contact a medical professional because persistent hiccups can sometimes point to an underlying health problem.

1. Get startled

   Believe me, it works ALL the time. It scares you SO bad! Maybe you'll be so scared while playing that your hiccups are gonna be gone!

   Like, it works all the time. Play Five Nights at Freddy's and kiss your hiccups goodbye.

   I meant play Five Nights at Freddy's for that one.

2. Hold your breath

   Anything that takes the attention away from your diaphragm, I believe.

3. Forget about it

4. Drink water

5. Eat ice cream

6. Hang upside down

7. Get tickled by a friend

   When you get tickled by your friends and/or your boyfriend, sometimes my hiccups would go away. When my friends and my boyfriend would be tickling me on my sides, my lower belly, my belly button, my feet, my armpits, and then my inner thighs, I couldn't hold still. When they would be tickling me behind my knees and on my neck as well, I couldn't stop squirming and laughing. Then they would be tickling me on the heel and arch of both feet, and I really couldn't move at all. Then they would go up to my armpits too, and I really couldn't stop laughing and squealing for sure.

   This is the best cure for hiccups, and it works really well. Whenever I had a bad case of the hiccups, my friends would tickle me all the time, and I really could not stop laughing. Pretty soon, my hiccups were gone.

8. Suck on a lemon with sugar

   Sometimes sucking on a lemon wedge really helps with the hiccups. For best results, just put sugar on the lemon wedge, then suck on it, and you will get a taste of sweet from the sugar and sour from the lemon! Trust me, it works every time. When I had a bad case of the hiccups at work, my friend Kimberly gave me a lemon wedge with sugar, and it worked effectively.

9. Drink water while upside down

   This hiccup cure usually works, but most of the time you would spill the water, and you and your friends laugh. This hiccup cure is fun to do with friends or family.

10. Think of the ugliest person you've seen

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    Get a tickle scare

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    Take a shower

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13. Drink pineapple juice

14. Drink water with a paper towel

    Drink water with a paper towel over it. It works. Don't do it if it's a tissue. That won't work. It has to be like a towel you use to wash windows and cars.

15. Do a happy dance

16. Do a headstand