CURES FOR HICCUPS

Note: These are purely for the entertainment of internet surfers. I can't guarantee these work.

- Try swallowing bread crumbs, crushed ice, or 1 teaspoon of sugar.
- Close your eyes and lightly push against your eyelids.
- Eat a Fluffernutter sandwhich - a peanut butter sandwhich with marshmallows.
- Blow up a balloon.
- Think of something else: I find that if you hold your breath and begin to read something interesting or watch TV. You will soon forget you are holding your breath. When you exhale the hiccups will be gone. Probably...
- Become scared.
- Anticipate the hiccup and say "beep" right before it.
- Yank on your tongue.
- Put a bag of ice below your ribcage.
- Hold your breath and have someone tickle you.
- Fill a small paper cup with water. Put your thumbs in your ears. Pick the cup up with your pinkies. Drink the water.

HICCUP FACTS

- A man has had the hiccups for 69 years.
- The hiccups are also known as Singultus.
- Babies hiccup in the womb.
- The sound of a hiccup comes when the glottis slaps against the larynx!!!!
- Men get the hiccups more often than women.