Wise people of the information super highway: any tips on making hiccups go away? I keep getting hiccups every time I eat or drink anything, even water and it’s lasting an annoying (but probably not concerning) amount of time. Drinking water didn’t work, holding my breath didn’t work, laying upside down didn’t work, and controlled breathing exercises didn’t work and I’m out of ideas
Holding my breath generally works, but only if I do it like this:
breathe in and out as normally as you can
take a big breath in, big big. Fill your lungs alllllll the way up
hold for as long as you can
do not exhale suddenly!
when you cannot hold any long, let the air out slowly, shape your mouth as if you’re whistling to do so. Like an small o shape.
nice and slow until you’ve exhaled completely.
repeat if required, but make sure you take normal breaths as per step one so you don’t hyperventilate
This helps me, as generally hiccups are caused by the diaphragm spasming. The full-lung breath-hold helps to like, reset it. And the very slow exhale is to stop the diaphragm from starting again from the shock of a sudden big exhale.
Thanks Chud, this fixed it. I guess I wasn’t holding it for long enough. The first time I held it for so long I could not exhale slowly, it was all or nothing. The second time I held it for a little less longer though, and a third time managed to fix it
Hiccups happen when your diaphragm gets out of sync with your breathing. Most of the effective methods force these to re-synchronise. Drinking water out of the BACK of the glass makes you bend over forwards, which temporarily halts your breathing and when you straighten up to swallow, you start breathing again in sync. Usually.
Also you might like to slow down the rate of eating, as gulping air along with food can set off hiccups. As a survivor of a boarding school where food happened in a lions on the kill fashion, I learned to bolt food as fast as possible. This caused quite a few issues that I had to learn how to slow down eating to fix. Hiccups was only part of it.
I don’t think I really eat that fast. I used to, when I was at the last place I pretty much had no choice but to down it as fast as possible, but these days I’m much slower and more calm when I’m eating and drinking. I certainly didn’t eat any faster than usual today, but my diaphragm evidently was just not having a good time!
I did also get them as soon as I woke up (in fact they were actually what woke me up) so I wonder if falling asleep with my electric blanket too high may have broken something
Wise people of the information super highway: any tips on making hiccups go away? I keep getting hiccups every time I eat or drink anything, even water and it’s lasting an annoying (but probably not concerning) amount of time. Drinking water didn’t work, holding my breath didn’t work, laying upside down didn’t work, and controlled breathing exercises didn’t work and I’m out of ideas
Holding my breath generally works, but only if I do it like this:
This helps me, as generally hiccups are caused by the diaphragm spasming. The full-lung breath-hold helps to like, reset it. And the very slow exhale is to stop the diaphragm from starting again from the shock of a sudden big exhale.
Thanks Chud, this fixed it. I guess I wasn’t holding it for long enough. The first time I held it for so long I could not exhale slowly, it was all or nothing. The second time I held it for a little less longer though, and a third time managed to fix it
Hiccups happen when your diaphragm gets out of sync with your breathing. Most of the effective methods force these to re-synchronise. Drinking water out of the BACK of the glass makes you bend over forwards, which temporarily halts your breathing and when you straighten up to swallow, you start breathing again in sync. Usually. Also you might like to slow down the rate of eating, as gulping air along with food can set off hiccups. As a survivor of a boarding school where food happened in a lions on the kill fashion, I learned to bolt food as fast as possible. This caused quite a few issues that I had to learn how to slow down eating to fix. Hiccups was only part of it.
I don’t think I really eat that fast. I used to, when I was at the last place I pretty much had no choice but to down it as fast as possible, but these days I’m much slower and more calm when I’m eating and drinking. I certainly didn’t eat any faster than usual today, but my diaphragm evidently was just not having a good time!
I did also get them as soon as I woke up (in fact they were actually what woke me up) so I wonder if falling asleep with my electric blanket too high may have broken something
Hold breath and try to burp. That works for me.