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Attack those pressure points!
There are 6 pressure points you can activate to cure an onset of hiccups. Gently apply pressure to the following parts of your body:
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Drink water through a straw & block your ears!
When I was really young, my grandmother always said that the best cure for hiccups is blocking your ears! You know that awful feeling on being on an airplane? That's the one, only you can mimic...
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Close your eyes and trace an elephant backwards!
When you have hiccups, shut your eyes and draw in your mind an elephant backwards whilst holding your breath.
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Bitters, lemon and sugar
Eat a lemon wedge saturated with Angostura bitters to get rid of hiccups.
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Lemons for sure!
We tried a spoon full of sugar or bite into lemon or scaring him, holding breath. ***Lemon was the cure**
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Hold your breath
Hold your breath for 40 seconds and make sure you count in your head as it helps to focus.
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Drinking Water upside down.
Tricky to do but take a half filled cup of water, bend over and drink it from the other side of the cup... so it appears you are drinking the water upside down. For some reason this really helps...
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Gargle with water (ideally cold/ice water)
Fill a glass with cold water, for added effect add in ice to make it extra cold. Drink the water and gargle for at least 20 seconds and then swallow the water. Repeat until the hiccups have gone....
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