Creative Ways to Get Rid of Hiccups

I hate it when the old tricks like holding your breath and gulping down water just don’t work to get rid of hiccups. Well here are a couple of creative ways to get rid of hiccups that you may not have thought of. Try these methods and feel insured that you’ll be rid of your hiccups on no time.

Creative Ways to Get Rid of Hiccups – Distractive Humming

In this method you take a deep breath and start to hum your favorite song. As you do this, do something else to help distract you such as tapping your head, rubbing your stomach, or snapping your fingers. Now if a hiccup sneaks out, don’t stop humming. Just take another quick deep breath and start again.

Creative Way to Get Rid of Hiccups – Make a Deal With a Friend

If you have a very close friend with whom you tend to hang out with during almost all of your free time, you may have the opportunity to make a deal the will be beneficial and humorous to both you and your friend. Make an agreement with your friend that when one of your gets the hiccups, the other has permission to do some to help you get rid of them. It could be simply by trying to scare you. Or it could be something to shock the other person, perhaps a quick slap in the face. Or maybe you could use the hiccup occurrence to just pull a prank on your friend, and use the excuse that you were trying to get rid of their hiccups. If your friend gets a case while you’re making dinner in the kitchen, one creative way to get rid of hiccups could be to slap them in the face with a fish. They will be so surprised that they’ll probably completely forget about their hiccups. Problem solved!

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