Quickly please. What is the way to stop hiccups - something to do with fingers??

[Snooks1971]

It was on a recent thread…?

Sugar and vinegar

Write the person’s name on their forehead

With your fingers, not a pen

No not that one, it was something about squeezing certain fingers !

You need an assistant, but drink water whilst stretching your arms up above your head as high as you can. I've never seen it fail.

Hold your breath. Might need to do it a few times but it helps calm the diaphragm.
Drink water out of the opposite side of a glass 9bending over it).

There's no 'the way' there are many things that might work or might not work, and the hiccups will go away anyway by themselves.

Thank you it’s for DH. He’s revelling in his hiccups

Drink from the further away side of a cup. You have to bend your head over to do it. Always works.

That was me!!! Squeeze the sides of both middle fingers for ten seconds! (Don’t tell him what you’re going to do - for some reason it works better!)

No it wasn't about drinking water was it. Something about squeezing the middle fingers of each hand?

Don’t know if it works, but it was on the “life hacks” thread and I think it was squeezing the middle finger really hard.

That was it Sweaty!

And please come back and let me know if it works :-)

@SweatyBetty20

That was me!!! Squeeze the sides of both middle fingers for ten seconds! (Don’t tell him what you’re going to do - for some reason it works better!)

Yes! I love you! Trying it now 👍🏼

Plug both your ears tightly, pushing both traguses and drink a glass of water through a straw.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693610/#ref1

Nothing to do with fingers but drink a shot glass of Ribena cordial (or similar) . I don't know how it works but it does.

Stand up straight with your hands linked behind your head. Elbows back, boobs forward. Inhale as deeply as you can & hold your breath for as long as you can. This creates downward pressure on the diaphragm which should stop it spasming, which is what a hiccup is.

Drink small sips of water from a glass while someone covers your ear with their hands.

Hold your breath and count to ten. Works for me.

Coughing stops mine.

@knittingaddict

Hold your breath and count to ten. Works for me.

Same here. DH very dramatic. We’ve just started watching The Hole on Netflix and they’ve stopped. Thank god, he was seriously annoying me 😡

Thank you everyone!

One thing that works for me is deep breath take three small swigs of water and breath out gone!