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Home Remedies to Cure Hiccups

April 15, 2009


Hiccups are second nature to me. I suffered from them from the time I could remember and laughed the time when I felt my baby do the same inside my womb. I thought something like that was not possible but it actually is. There is nothing dangerous about getting hiccups but if they last a long time; more than 30 minutes then they can be potentially life threatening. And yet in other cases they are a sign of a much more serious disease like cancer or other infections. If you are not suffering from chronic hiccups then you can try a few home remedies to help you out of your dilemma.

Home remedies for hiccups

While most of the treatments that you hear about may make you laugh there is no harm in trying out a few. Some of them seem superstitious while others seem plain silly. Whatever the case, when there is nothing else you can do trying out a few tricks to help your cause can’t hurt.

One of the things you can try is to take a deep breathe and hold it in for a few minutes. It is said that stopping the flow in your nasal passage stops your hiccups. I recommend it.

Another trick is to look at the ceiling when you have a hiccup attack. This helps you to change the direction of your nasal passage and hence causes a change in the direction of the airflow to stop your hiccups.

Eating a pinch of salt is said to ward off your hiccups.

How to avoid hiccups

Eating spicy foods normally trigger the spells of hiccups. The spices in the food you eat react with your stomach to form an acid that causes the hiccups.

Do not drink water when you are having hiccups. There is a possibility that the water you sip on may go directly to your wind pipe and lead you choke on the water and get suffocated.


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