How To Get Hiccups

Normally your diaphragm contracts when you inhale and relaxes when you exhale.

How to get hiccups. Biting or sucking on a lemon wedge is another popular hiccup remedy. Most cases of hiccups can be cured or resolve in a short time and rarely are they a medical emergency. But in some cases they can last for a while.

4 Use measured breathing by inhaling and exhaling to a 5 count. To get the hiccups drink something fizzy like sparkling water or soda. Most hiccups will go away on their own.

A hair or something else in your ear touching your eardrum A tumor cyst or goiter in your neck. Eating too fast can cause you to swallow air and disrupt your breathing patterns. The bothering feeling that hiccups creates can seldom prevent us from performing simple tasks normally.

Wash your food down with sips of water to prevent it from getting stuck in your throat and causing hiccups. Drinking through a straw. Why we get hiccups.

When it spasms you inhale suddenly and your vocal cords snap. There are many traditional ways to stop hiccups from getting people to give you a scare drinking from the opposite side of a cup or standing on your head but there is little scientific evidence for these techniques. According to a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine this treatment cured 14 out of 16 people with hiccups Best Health reports.

Hiccups can happen for a lot of reasons -- some of them are physical and some emotional. And if you test one of those old wives tales about stopping hiccups say getting someone to scare you. Home remedies or ways to get rid of hiccups include.