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This article is getting filled with pointless household remedies. It should only include common remedies with a citation to back them up. There are thousands of baseless "cures" out there but just because your personal cure always works for you, that doesn't mean you need to add it to a Wikipedia article. To be blunt, no one cares.

If you really feel that your remedy belongs on this page, then please discuss it here before editting. Thank you. --NGamer88 06:03, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Advice from herbalist

A Chinese herbalist insists I shouldn't take a cold drink with a hot meal. This does seem to bring them on with me. What more can one say? Well there's plenty about this subject on the Web, so no doubt there is room for expansion. They are not always so bad: my own proneness to them often breaks the ice at dinner parties. Shantavira 10:55, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Revert

As I was reading the talk page someone changed the original article. I reverted it back because I think that the "household remedies" were worded better before the were put into a bulleted list. If the person who did that disagrees I or they could edit it so it is grammatically correct and sounds professional. Plus±Minus 01:32, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moo

  • Gulping down a glass of water while holding one's breath (ever tried breathing and drinking simultaneously?).
Yeah. You get water in your lungs and cough for half an hour. And who came up with the "eating five tablespoons of salt while looking at a picture of a cow"? That seems like BJAODN fodder t'me. :P --Jack (Cuervo) 05:26, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
unless you breath through your nose... duh.
By the way, I've found that taking a drag off a cigarette while one has the hiccups invariably produces a hiccup. --Jack (Cuervo)

[edit] A Personal Cure

I can invariably cure my hiccups by working my throat muscles to induce a small regurgitation; after I spit out the viscous, mucous-laden goo, I am all better. This technique has never failed me since it's discovery when I was a lad.


Interesting, personaly I can force some sort of "air bubble" out of my esophogus and the hiccup stops...--Kultz 19:53, 27 August 2005 (UTC)


Something similar works for me... burping. This may not work for anyone else, but I recently found that sucking in air, thus causing a rather loud burp, took care of my hiccups ASAP. I had to do it constantly for a minute or so, but they were gone in no time flat. Before that I had tried holding my breath, eating a packet of sugar, and drinking water while plugging my nose and plugging my ears. Whatever works I guess. --TDIGuy 21:10, 19 October 2005 (UTC)


I've found that a pure "mind-over-matter" approach works best for me. When I get the hiccups, I wait until about the 3rd or 4th one, then tell myself that they are done. It's kind of hard to explain but I guess you could say I'm sort of "willing" them away--and if I do a good enough job of convincing myself I won't have another hiccup, I usually don't. Zen Jeff 03:24, 23 October 2005 (UTC)


I can most certainly back up your claim. I knew a few years back that I should swallow an amount of air or liquid...saliva, water, anything...force out one or more burps and the hiccups is gone for good. I used to drink cups of water (sometimes to no avail), and I now believed that this too may had a connection to starting burps. ╫ 25 ring-a-ding 09:33, 30 November 2005 (UTC) ╫
You mean the idea of something getting stuck in the esophagus and is unable to be brought down by the contractions? --Kultz 23:20, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

I drink and walk backwards at the same time for three seconds and it works all the time.

"Additionally, another respiratory remedy, while having no sound scientific principle behind it, is paradoxically one of the most effective in treating persistent hiccups. One breathes out all the air that they are able to in one long exhalation then breathes in all the air they feel they possibly can in one continuous inhalation. The person then attempts to breathe in even more air in a series of short powerful puffs, until their lungs cannot hold any more. The person remains in this state for as long as they feel they can hold that breath in. Although the success rate is not 100%, many people find this method consistently works." - This was an exercise we used to do at choir practise in high school to help expand and stretch your lungs so you could take larger breaths. I also found it has the tendency to stretch your diaphragm muscles. Other muscles spasms are often cured by stretching the muscle, so it's really no surprise that this technique works. I had figured it out in high school (graduated '99), and I've been using it ever since!! - Azalie, 10:52 09 February 2006

Another Cure: lay on your back with head on the ground. Drink a glass of water without lifting your head. The "forced" feeling of drinking in this manner will revert the muscles to proper position. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.24.79 (talk) 01:14, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Beer

I find I only get hiccups after drinking a lot of beer, and this happens consistantly. It doesn't seem to occur with other fizzy drinks either. I'm curious as to how this can be explained, it's really annoying. Should I add drinking beer to the list of causes, or is it just me who has encountered this? -Altima

It's not just you. It doesn't happen to me, but hiccups are definitely associated with drinking and inebriation, this is seen in many comics i.e. Asterix. NTK 18:55, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Function

Is anything known about the function of hiccups? It seems every bodily reaction has a function, and I am curious about why we get the hiccups. Although asking for a function is perhaps a bit optimistic since we aren't even sure about the cause of them (which is quite amazing to me). Haakon 02:44, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

-- My personal theory, which comes from thinking about the matter while my wife was pregnant, is that hiccoughs in the womb are for diaphram exercise. Hiccoughs after birth are just annoying onsets of the same excercise reflex. (anon user)


It may have something to do with gills. [1] 68.124.31.233 00:10, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't know why anyone else doesn't talk about this, but I think that it is simply an air bubble in your stomach that is trying to escape, and is not big enough for the pressure to build and escape in the usual burp.

[edit] Plagiarism

I have removed the section "Longest Attack of Hiccups" because it is a direct copy from the Guiness World Records article. This section was added by 67.51.13.92. I don't mean to be insulting, but it amazes me that so many people don't know that you can't copy someone else's writing word for word without putting it in quotes and citing the source--not even a single sentence. If someone would care to paraphrase this, I think it would be a useful addition to the article.

rather than deleting, why didn't you simply quote as you suggest? Themindset 16:28, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Solution?

I'm a bit new, but I just came across and article on something similar and made it a page. i cited it, but I don't exactly know how to correctly do it on here. Hopefully someone will edit it. But the page's name is "Charles Osborne" and I rephrased it so it wouldn't be plagarism, but it's quiet similar, so who knows. Maybe you can link that to this page?

[edit] Infallible remedy

The "Swallowing three times while holding one's breath"-cure have never failed me since I discovered it. If it is'nt working for you, try swallowing four times instead. MattiaX 13:05, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

-- All you need to do to releive a hiccup is to force a small burp and it is gone! At least this is what I have always done to successfully and immediatly relieve the hiccups.


WOW! I had the hicccups when I came on this page and tried swallowing three times- and it worked! Thanks!

actually, its not infalliable. this guy has probably tried allmost every "cure" to no avail: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7387224.stm Alastairthegreat (talk) 19:54, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Excercise Hiccups

I get the hiccups when I bench press. Does anyone know why? M@$+@ Ju 13:46, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

This is the best @#$%ing page ever.

Kalisphoenix 04:10, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
-- It's probably because you are breathing irregularly, and are actually swallowing small amounts of air, so when you are done you hiccup until you burp. Just a theory...

[edit] Not everyone gets them

I, for instance, have never had a hiccup in 27 years.

You lucky bunny. JFW | T@lk 08:22, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Remedies

Before you delete "blowing up a balloon", think: what major muscle is used both during hiccups and pushing air out of one's lungs? There you go! And it works for me.

That's a pretty poor indicator of notability. Although it makes sense, you have not stated whether there are 1000s of other people using this or considering it a remedy for hiccups. If the list was not completely full of similar ideas, it would have met my personal criteria for removal :-). JFW | T@lk 23:54, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I'm curious...

Since mental approaches can end a bout of hiccups (e.g. I've been using the "watch alertly for the next hiccup" approach with good success), I wonder how many of these other cures actually work by placebo effect. DanielCristofani 07:50, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I've basically forced myself to stop hiccuping entirely, because I've got a messed up esophagus.. even one is extremely painful now (I also have trouble swallowing if I'm not sitting with my back perfectly straight). It's not a matter of 'mind over matter' though, as much as holding perfectly still and trying not to let any muscular action happen.

Of course, before my esophagus broke, I used to stop hiccups effectively by taking a deep breath and forcing it down, so to speak.. putting vague pressure on the lower chest area.. I assumed it pushed the diaphragm back into place.

I have been showing people the "Mental" approach for 20 years now. A friend learned it from a college professor, showed me, and it worked immediately; haven't had hiccups since. This method has worked for EVERYONE I have shown, in fact, it cured my 5 year old son just this week. The exercise is meant to have the person concentrate on the hiccups as much as possible. Have them rest their hand on a table and lift up their index finger. Tell them to attempt to tap the table with their index finger just BEFORE they hiccup again. It takes about 2 minutes, and they will hiccup a few more times, but don't give up. It helps to keep them focused by telling them: "Get ready, your going to hiccup again..." Just remember, the way this works is to focus on the hiccup itself. If you think about it, you tend to hiccup again after you have relaxed a bit from the last one. Hope this helps!

[edit] Curiouser and curiouser about hiccups in animals

Believe it, please, we'd really like to know. Watching our cat hiccup, we remembered we'd seen a dog hiccup. It occurred to us to wonder, what other animals hiccup? Do horses? Do cows? Does a giraffe, or does the length of its neck prevent it; conversely, how would its hiccup sound? Then, for similar reasons, does a whale hiccup? (And of course, one might wonder, whales being intelligent critters as they are, if one hiccups, do the others giggle? But then, that's a topic for somewhere else...) Seriously, does anyone know the answers here? Please share: we'd be grateful to hear your knowledge!

You probably know this already, but I've seen my dogs hiccup before (particularly when they were puppies). I think a fair few mammals must hiccup if distantly related animals like humans and Dogs hiccup. --Burbster 02:30, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation symbols

For those who know how to parse them, toward the top, (I didn't presume to edit): pronunciation symbols may be shown as hǐc-cŭp

Just a little note FYI, the system has a name "International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" KX36 00:14, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Review anonymous user's claims

67.71.60.123 added this, without citing sources:

When you eat, somtimes your tummy is working so hard at digesting that it contracts out of sync with your inhaling/exhaling pattern. This causes the diaphragm that lines the bottom of the respiratory cavity to detach from the top of the abdomen (they're attached by water surface tension - like wetting a piece of paper and sticking it to the wall). Since the muscle contractions in the stomach help with the expansion of the lungs during inhalation the two kind want to stay stuck together. Hiccups are your body's way of trying to realign the two (so that muscle contractions and inhalation occur at the same time).

Disregarding the need for an encyclopedic rewrite, are these claims worth anything? I have removed it for now; someone with some knowledge (and perhaps some sources) should review it and add it back in a proper form, if appropriate. Haakon 21:50, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

It sounds very clever, but it's unsourced and prone to be a pet theory. JFW | T@lk 22:47, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
The diaphragm is not attatched to your lungs by surface tension. There is connective tissue connecting it. But I guess it is not impossible to get a 'bubble'. aussietiger 14:34, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vinegar

Here is one that works for me everytime, and it works instantly. Though sometimes, say half-an-hour later, the hiccups return and I have to use it again.

Warm water mixed with about 3 teaspoons of vinegar. Works great for me. Be warned, if you eat or drink afterwards, the hiccups may return. Just repeat the treatment, and don't eat or drink until your body is over the hiccups.

Yeah, but this is an encyclopedia. "Works for me" is original research, unless you can prove a significant portion of mankind turns to your remedy, however effective. Sorry. JFW | T@lk 13:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Hrmm... I originally found it on a website one day when I was looking for a cure for my persistant hiccups. So the idea is not original to me. I just did a google and found it is already quiet well known - so I don't think it is classed as "original research". Just google for "vinegar hiccups" (no quotes). I get 59,700 hits.... It would be a shame if something that works so well is not publicised as much as possible.

Now that's a better approach. I say just pick the most reliable one (e.g. a medical journal or professional hiccupper) and stick it in the article! JFW | T@lk 20:41, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Hrmm... I just looked on the main page, and it _already_ mentions vinegar as a cure (though it is a single word...). Not sure how I missed it the first time around. From Googling it seems there are just as many causes of hiccups as there are home "remedies". It all seems idiosyncratic. I will put here a couple of the better links I found, but frankly, I am not sure anything needs to be added to the main article. http://www.med.ucla.edu/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=9 http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/jan2001/980206939.Me.r.html

As long as it is sourced and appears to be reasonably significant, it can be mentioned. Try this for background, and this if you feel brave. JFW | T@lk 14:45, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] An ironic cure for hiccups

While this doesn't really have anything to do with discussing the content of the article, I thought it was worth sharing. I had been suffering from hiccups for about two hours the other night, and was trying to get rid of them. I decided to check out Wikipedia, to see if they had any good cures. After focusing on the article for about five minutes, I noticed my hiccups were miraculously gone. Just another reason to love Wikipedia, I guess.

Thats real cute

[edit] Implausible remedies

Home remedies by 199.111.199.253 seem highly implausible.

"Drinking a glass of water than spitting it back up and drinking that again, repeat until hiccups stop." "Spin in circles with your fingers up your nose until you bump into a wall, while holding your breath"

Opinion on removal? Dhp1080 06:36, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Might be a good idea to remove at least the latter, people could probably do some serious damage by hitting a wall elbow first or falling down and landing on their elbow while having their finger up their nose. KX36 00:03, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

And the first one is just ridiculous. What difference does it make if you drink the water you spit up or drink from a different glass? Or a bowl? Or the toilet? Panzer V Panther 04:28, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Swallowing while holding breath

Isn't that the only way to swallow; unless you have a deformed larynx or no epiglotis, isn't it impossible to swallow and breath at the same time? in which case, should all the references to that be shortened to just "swallowing"

Personally, I just hold my breath for as long as i can, it seems to do the trick. i always thought it was something to do with holding the spastic diaphragm still for long enough so that it stops the spasms. KX36 00:09, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually babies can swallow and breathe simultaneously, as the epiglottis has a different configuration until the age of about 1 year. However, in general you're right, you can't swallow without a short pause in the breath. Graham 07:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inhalation of amniotic fluid

I removed the sentence that stated "other hypotheses hold that...[hiccupping]...prevents inhalation of amniotic fluid by the foetus". If this is a real hypothesis, please cite its source. It sounds like an utterly ridiculous notion because anyone who thinks about this for one microsecond will realise that foetuses don't breathe. The entire respiratory system is shut down during gestation and only starts working after birth. Babies receive oxygen via the placenta. They do, however, swallow amniotic fluid which is quite normal. Sounds to me like someone's pet theory, based on complete ignorance, presented as fact. Graham 07:04, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I added that line and the preceding one about four months ago. It wasn't something that was made up as I got it from the BBC News article found in the External Links section. In retrospect, my wording was bad as I used "theories" instead of "hypotheses". Perhaps I'll resubmit it with better wording. Graham, perhaps you could look over that BBC article and ascertain as to whether the sentence should remain. But I must say that it wasn't some "utterly ridiculous notion" I made up! =P At any rate, I'll add a source to the end of it; although, I've never done so before. Therefore if it appears to come out wrong or isn't to Wikipedia standards, please make the necessary corrections. Thank you. Here, too, is another article that states the same thing as the BBC one. --Emperorchaos 16:36, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks a bundle!

Hey, I know some people think that wp shouldn't have any medical advice, but there was none here, I would still have hiccups. So thanks! --Snargle 05:33, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

I just hope you didn't eat a spoonful of salt while looking at a picture of an elephant. Some of the advice added here ranges from useless to harmful. Haakon 08:35, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] device

The text about the new device reads rather like an advertisement. Has the machine been scientifically tested at all? I think the unproven claims sound rather exorbitant. Bart 11:15, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I obliterated it.--Planetary 04:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plain and Simple

It's nothing more complicated than trapped air in the belly. Simply apply a pressure with a "baby" Heimlich move and VOILA!! If done correctly you can actually feel the air (no matter how small of an amount) being forced out. No need to give yourself a headache by holding your breath, drinking ridiculous amounts of water or swallowing, buying or taking ANY products to remedy, or belching...although I do enjoy a good belch after my meals, LOL. adisalee

except that I'm reasonably sure there is, more or less, always some amount of air trapped in the stomach. I have met people who are able to burp on command, repeatedly, without any other preparation. While air in the stomach and hiccuping may be related, to claim that the former definitely causes the latter (without some kind of controlled experiment) is premature.--Leperflesh 01:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
I can force air in and out of my stomach on command with ease. I have never noted ANY corrolation at all between the air in my stomach or this ability, and hiccups. Elgaroo (talk) 18:42, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] kissing

No, really, don't laugh. I heard years ago, somewhere, that having a good (open-mouth or french) kiss does very well as a cure. Maintain until breathless. My GF and I tried it (she gets hiccups a lot) and it works well... although in many public settings it's not an appropriate thing to do. A quick google search turns up one or two references ([[2]], but they are not good enough to serve as reference sources for wikipedia. --Leperflesh 01:10, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tickling

Vigourously tickling the person suffering from hiccups appears to work. There are two problems with this theory:

  • It's original research
  • While researching it, my wife decided she preferred the hiccups to the tickling.

--61.214.155.14 04:45, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quick Vandalism

Someone removed the record holder's name and replaced it with penis monger. I deleted that and replaced it with a question mark. Does anyone know what the guys name was? Also I did not know how to put the vandalism template up.--Mullon 01:22, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

You can find any information deleted by vandalism by going to an earlier edit of the page (click the history tab to do this). I've restored the name now. – Autodidact 20:07, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contradiction

In Hiccup article:

“ The Guinness World Record for the longest continuous bout of hiccups (1922–1990) goes to Charles Osborne (1894–1991) from Anthon, Iowa. The hiccups started in 1922 at a rate of 40 times per minute, slowing to 20 and eventually stopping in February 1990 – a total of 68 years. ”

In Charles Osborne article:

“ Osborne, from Anthon, Iowa, USA, was entered in Guinness World Records as the man with the Longest Attack of Hiccups. The hiccups started in 1922 at a rate of 40 times per minute, slowing to 20 and eventually stopping on June 5, 1990... ”

We need verification of which is correct. Also, external link on Hiccup article is broken. // >|< Shablog 19:44, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible vandalism

And then the hiccup explodes. You may or may not get diarrhea. If the diarrhea is watery, report to a doctor before hiccups turn into dangerous chemical reactions. Side affects of these chemical reactions include, hard lumpy poop, and abnormaly long bowl movements.

This looks like nonsense to me; I can't extract any useful message from it. I will temporarily remove it, and in the meantime can anyone verify if this action is appropriate? 石川 02:27, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Thats definately vandalism. Its okay to remove it. --ISeeDeadPixels 22:34, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] It's all in our heads.

The solution appears to be a physcological, and that is too simply reconise that you have the hiccups, and to attempt to either reproduce it, or tell your mind to stop it.

All these quick solutions from standing on your head to holding your breath under a blue moon is simply to tell your mind to reconise the problem, and to solve it.Daemondevel 16:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A variation on a listed "cure"

Drinking a large glass of water covered by a paper towel, is a cure that was given to me by the advice nurse when I called Kaiser Permanente years ago when I had a case of hiccups that had gone on for hours on end, and even hyperventilating repeatedly using a paper bag didn't help. She explained to me that the "theory" behind it working, had to do with pressure differential created by having to suck very hard to get water through the paper towel. I found this to be very effective, works almost every time for me. Later on I developed a much less messy variation on this: Take a soda straw and a large glass of water, and press the straw against the inside of the glass with your finger to create a constriction, then while holding that, suck water through the straw for a few minutes, simultaneously swallowing and sucking more water as you accumulate enough water in your mouth to swallow. If you're doing it right, you'll have to work very hard to get water through the straw, taking several seconds to get enough water in your mouth to swallow. Whether it's a cure that's psychosomatic in nature or not, it works for me and has worked for some others in the past.

-- D. Blackthorne

[edit] Explanation of the swallowing method

An alternative explanation for the efficacy of swallowing methods is that it is not possible for the body to hiccup and swallow at the same time. This means, for example, that when drinking a glass of water (or any other liquid) in an attempt to cure hiccups, the most effective approach is to take frequent small sips in order to be able to swallow continually. Since the spasm is interrupted by this method, it is soon arrested.

Of course I don't have a source for this, otherwise I would add it to the article, but I suspect it may be as scientifically valid as the CO2 method, although it is less effective for hiccups which have been established for longer, since the body will then hiccup between two swallows. Can someone find a source? Geometry guy 19:08, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] possible cure?

I might have found relief for hiccups. My son had a case of them one night and while I massaged his chest (I thought it might help) he asked what they were. I tried to explain about the diaphragm and all and told him to lift his shirt up and he would be able to see his chest spasm. The hiccups stopped. We had a good laugh and he went to bed. I then went to tuck in my daughter and found her with a case of them, too. I told her what had happened with her brother. After several minutes of holding her breath and massaging her chest, I jokingly told her to lift her shirt up to take a look at the spasms because that's what her brother did. Her hiccups stopped! Both of them were lying flat on their back and both tilted their heads in an effort to see their chest. I wonder if it's possible to "stretch" the area that spasms and in doing so relaxing it. Kind of like a hot pack on a sore muscle- it relaxes it. If anyone knows if this may be what happened, please respond. And if I did inadvertently find a cure, I would like it named after me! ;-) 71.223.255.43 05:06, 6 September 2007 (UTC)Felicia — This remedy is a simple combination of two well- known ones, but it has a success rate over 95%, based not on scientific study but on long local history. Hiccups appear to be associated, or perhaps even caused by, an electrical potential between throat and some cranial region that 'connects' electrically with the forehead. The treatment is very simple: put in a glass any conducting liquid, such as water with sugar, or juice, then put a spoon in the glass. Touch the other end of the spoon to your forehead while drinking the liquid. INSTANTLY you will feel a reduction in the feeling that precedes or accompanies hiccups. It has worked for many people; babies, children and adults. Please give it a try. Jim Trossa27 17:56, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hiccups and Inebriation

What's with it? We all know it. We've all seen it in real life. If you go to a bar you're going to see it. All drunk people hiccup for some odd reason. I mean, forget real life for a moment, it's so commonly seen among us that even in cartoons the characters hiccup upon an intake of an alchoholic substance. What's the relation here? Obviously upon drinking high quantities of alchoholic substances we get the hiccups, but why? And the answer should probably be put into an article somewhere, because between hiccups and slurred speech, I don't know a better stereotype of a drunkard. 24.15.53.225 04:20, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another Cure

My sister told me that if I drank was upside-down (ie, stick your in the sink and carefully pour water in your mouth from the glass and swallow) that it would get rid of hiccups and it worked! The only problem was that water ended up coming out from my nose... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.104.74.147 (talk) 08:56, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] smoking

i thinks its rediculous to include smoking a cigarette as a remedy. Nicotine causes hiccup, and thats a fact. Shouldnt an encyclopedia represent fact, not some bs people say? -matt —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.251.153 (talk) 19:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Just like nicotine causes lung cancer etc etc eh? 209.97.83.155 (talk) 00:00, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This article is so fascinating

Reading it actually stopped my hiccups, heheheh :-) --Nathanael Bar-Aur L. (talk) 21:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


Inpressed!

This really helped me! I had to use this info twice this week to take care of hiccups that were bothering me and it worked both times! The following is the section that helped me the most, it didn't always work the first time I tried it but it was very effective.

One breathes out all the air that they are able to in one long exhalation then breathes in all the air they feel they possibly can in one continuous inhalation. The person then attempts to breathe in even more air in a series of short powerful puffs, until their lungs cannot hold any more. The person remains in this state for as long as they feel a small gas bubble coming at the very base of the throat, ready to be burped. Although the success rate is not 100%, many people find this method consistently works.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.20.39.106 (talk) 07:51, 8 February 2008 (UTC) It may be useful, and truth be told, it looks very interesting and intriguing, but it's still OR. And man is that section long! We'll have to think of something to do about it: referencing seems unlikely, deletion seems too cruel, but yet I can't help feeling this kind of information doesn't belong on Wikipedia. Any thoughts? A disclaimer maybe? Keith Galveston (talk) 06:38, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: smoking

If you ask me, it works... just had to leave the pub where I work on Thursdays because of a particularly nasty case. When I've tried all the other home remedies I usually resort to smoking just a half of a cigarette (particularly unpleasant since I quit smoking a few years ago) and this seems to work against both stomach spasms and hiccoughs. Not to knock "Matt"'s entry, but it's worked for me for yearsm and since there is a whole section on remedies with purely psychosomatic bases why not include it. Wallenberg (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Long-term cases

I have tagged the long-term cases section as trivia. It's senseless to list people who have had hiccups for irrelevant durations. The world record could be fit into another section, but otherwise the rest seem useless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ijustam (talk • contribs) 21:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cleaning up treatment and home remedies

I started cleanup of this section. Someone needs to go through the bulleted list of home remedies and compare them to the body of that secton and delete dupicates. We may want to consider deleting the bulleted list altogether and combining the sourced material into the body. Either way, this material has to get a source or needs to be deleted. --NGamer88 06:52, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it's unreasonable to delete most of that section, unless the treatment can be cited. The summary at the beginning should be sufficient. ABlake (talk) 11:24, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Slight Grammar Mishap

"...or having the sensation that there is food in the esophagus, rarely by tumors and certain kidney disease."

a certain kidney disease or certain kidney diseases —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.114.89.175 (talk) 21:58, 8 June 2008 (UTC)