There is no exact or perfect medical method to stop them; however, there are many natural methods that are very powerful to stop them from repeating continuously, and the following home remedies are a few among them.
The best and the simplest method you can easily follow to stop hiccups is drinking cold water gradually or sipping cold water. Drinking water calms the nerves with the same effect as gargling with cold water.
Consciously breath in by taking as much air as possible until you reach to a point where you can no more inhale further. Then, hold your breath for a few seconds until you feel you are running out of oxygen, and then release air slowly. Repeat this three to four times.
This breath control method is simple. Here, you just have to hold your breath as usual for a few seconds until you reach to a point to exhale, and then exhale slowly.
This trick of increasing carbon dioxide concentration and suffocating your lungs without providing oxygen can be extended maximum up to a minute, but not more than that considering the sensitivity of your lungs for oxygen. This is the most tested trick because when your lungs get full of carbon dioxide, they want to get rid of it as early as possible and thus brain signals shifts and your hiccup stops.
Place some hot sauce on the tongue and then gradually sip the sauce. The hot and chili sauce distracts the concentration of the person from the hiccup and inflames the hot senses more and thus causes the hiccup senses from the brain to stop.
Surprise the person experiencing hiccups with some sudden frightening tricks like disguising as ghosts and suddenly appearing from nowhere when the person is busy with some other work. This sudden frightening incident may help divert the sensory signals of the brain towards more flight and fight kind of reaction rather than towards hiccups.
Tickling the palate seems very effective as long as it is done with a purpose and heightened sensitivity by using cotton swab. This can also be done by placing your thumb on the palate and gently pressing it in case you don’t have cotton swab ready with you. Similarly, ask someone to tickle your most sensitive tickling spots, and this will definitely do the trick for you.
Overloading the stomach and eating spicy food and eating faster are some of the main reasons for hiccups, according to experts. Therefore, next time when you eat ensure that you eat slower, make space for water and air in your stomach and limit spices in your foods.
Alternative medicine addresses hiccups at their grass roots levels and therefore considers every lifestyle aspect very seriously for addressing hiccups. Lifestyle plays very important role not only in this case, but also in many other diseases and conditions. Therefore, the first principle is to adopt emotional well-being, that is, to avoid anger, frustration, anxiety and irritability in general and during eating and before eating in particular.
Perform yoga daily, especially pranayama, snake pose or peacock pose early in the morning and keep your liver healthy. To keep your liver healthy, avoid eating cabbages and cauliflower and incorporate green leafy vegetables, carrot, cherries, strawberries, plum and cashew nuts in your daily diet plan.
You simply can’t ignore hiccups as considering them involuntary and natural if they continuously persist for more than three to four hours, that too with extreme severity, which is troubling you to eat, sleep and breath. Next, if you feel pain, breathing problem, stomach pain, and it is getting worst with other symptoms like fever, sore throat along with coughing, then immediately consult a healthcare provider to rule out any other medical condition.
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