Not quite 365 days meme March

[pattrose]

March 2nd. Yes, I'm early.

2. My mother taught me to get rid of hiccups by holding my breath and then swallowing three times. It works most of the time! How do you get rid of hiccups?

Hiccups are just gas in your stomach. (I think) What I've always done is take a big drink of water or whatever you are drinking, and burp. Takes mine right away. I know someone who gets hiccups for like ten minutes. I had her drink a little Dr. Pepper and burp. She no longer has them for ten minutes at a time. The gas-causing drink makes her burp easily. Does anyone have trouble with this? I never gave it much thought. What do you do for them?

Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

that's useful to know about hiccups.

I worked out that drinking sauerkraut juice stops hiccups, when I have some available which isn't always.

[malinaldarose]

Hm, interesting. I've found that only having a bit of chocolate stops mine, but if it's gas in the stomach, then it makes sense that plunking something else in there would help.