How to quickly get rid of hiccups at home

A healthy person stops hiccuping 10-20 minutes after the onset of an attack without additional effort. However, to reduce this time, there are several tricks. There is no general cure for hiccups, so try each method and choose the most effective one for yourself.

The most famous way is to drink a glass of water in small sips. While drinking, some advise to lean forward and hold your breath. This method is especially effective when dry food is the cause of the hiccups, the remains of which are stuck in the throat.Water washes away the crumbs, thereby eliminating the irritation of the phrenic nerve located nearby.
Take a deep breath and try not to breathe for a few seconds. This will help the diaphragm calm down and, possibly, with the next breath, this condition will continue.
Put something sweet, bitter, or sour on the tongue (for example, a slice of lemon or a spoonful of sugar). A sharp taste sensation has a calming effect on the irritated diaphragm.
If the cause of hiccups is hypothermia, it is enough to dress warmer and drink hot tea or milk.
If possible, try to stand up or make a “birch”. This position of the body calms the diaphragm.
Stick out your tongue as far as possible and freeze in this position for a few seconds. They say that President Kennedy’s doctor used this method.
The most extreme way is to ask someone to scare you with a sharp and loud sound. This helps bring down the rhythm of hiccups. With this method, you should be careful, because if the cause of hiccups is a disease of the nervous system, then fear will only aggravate it.
Close your eyes, slightly press on your eyelids with your fingers and sit like that for a couple of minutes.
If you have a paper bag on hand, you can breathe into it. Blood is saturated with carbon dioxide and hiccups cease.

It is believed that such a "treatment" of hiccups at home will be most effective if carried out before you hiccuped five times.

How to get rid of hiccups after alcohol

Hiccup after being drunk, as a rule, the longest and annoying. In this case, the cause of hiccups is primarily the general poisoning of the body by the toxins contained in alcoholic beverages. Alcohol itself is eliminated from the body for a long time. For example, for 100 grams of vodka this time is 4 hours, for 100 grams of cognac - 1 hour more, and a half liter bottle of beer will need 3 hours. If hiccups become unbearable, first aid is the cleansing of the body.

In severe cases, detoxification (purification from toxins) of the body is carried out in clinics under the supervision of doctors. The easiest way to do this at home is to induce vomiting. To do this, drink a glass of water in large sips and push your fingers on the root of the tongue. To improve the effect in water, you can dissolve 5-6 tablets of activated carbon or make a weak solution of potassium permanganate.

If a person systematically abuses alcohol and constantly suffers from hiccups, this can indicate serious liver disease. In case of alcohol poisoning, the liver takes the brunt. Under the influence of toxins, its size increases, which leads to pressure on the diaphragm and, as a result, to hiccups. In this case, to maintain health, a medical examination is necessary.

Less commonly, the cause of alcoholic hiccups is irritation of the central nervous system. Alcohol acts on the site, which controls the contraction of the diaphragm as an irritant, and the person begins to hiccup. A deep sleep that can calm the nervous system can help.

How to get rid of hiccups in a child

Most often, the child hiccups due to hypothermia, dry feeding or nervous excitement. As a rule, in children hiccups cause more discomfort than in adults, so every parent should know the methods of getting rid of it.

If the child hiccups for less than an hour, and attacks are repeated quite rarely, there is no reason for concern. But if hiccups regularly torment the baby and do not pass for a long time - examination is necessary, perhaps its cause is a serious illness. Often hiccups in the child's body can be caused by ordinary worms or other parasites.

A great way to get rid of hiccups is to take deep breaths with the baby. After each breath, you can hold your breath for 10-20 seconds. This distracts the child, calms his nervous system and diaphragm. Typically, after two minutes of such breathing exercises, the hiccups recede.

To combat children's hiccups, methods for adults are also suitable: a glass of liquid drunk in small sips, a slice of lemon on the tongue or a piece of compressed sugar.

In restless children, hiccups can be caused by overexcitation. Sometimes it’s enough just to captivate a child with an entertaining game or a book and hiccups will instantly pass by itself. For these purposes, you can also read with him the well-known poem "Hiccups, hiccups go to Fedota ....".

How to stop hiccups in newborns

Many expectant mothers notice that their unborn baby already hiccups in the womb. It is like light tremors after a short, equal amount of time. Doctors say that this contributes to the sweet food that a pregnant woman eats. Amniotic fluid gets a sweetish taste, and the baby gladly swallows them in large quantities. After that, reducing the diaphragm, a small sweet tooth removes their excess.

According to another version, hiccups are a preparation for independent swallowing, breathing and sucking, so you should not be afraid of it.

Hiccups of the fetus can last from 2 minutes to half an hour. To stop her, you can try to walk or roll over to the other side, if she caught you at night.

Newborns hiccup more often than adults. This is expressed in a uniform twitching of the whole body. To get rid of hiccups in infants, it is enough to eliminate its cause.

First of all, it is worth checking whether the child is cold. Subcooling will be indicated by a cold nose and skin in the elbow and knee bends. In this case, it is enough to cover the baby with a warm diaper or blanket.

If the cause of hiccups became bloating, lift the baby upright and, stroking the back, hold in this position for a couple of minutes. Excess air and milk in the baby’s stomach will soon go out and the hiccups will stop. To avoid unpleasant consequences, try to correctly put the baby to the chest so that it captures not only the nipple, but also the areola. If the baby is eating from a bottle, the correct nipple is important. If the hole in it is too small, then it swallows a lot of excess air, and if it is too large, it overeats, which also causes hiccups.

To prevent hiccups, you should not overfeed the baby. Applying to the breast every half hour is possible and will contribute to an increase in milk, but the baby needs 2-3 hours to digest food, and a crowded stomach causes hiccups.

What can not be done with hiccups of a newborn

Many ways to deal with hiccups in adults can harm a baby. For example, doctors do not recommend giving babies water. The fact is that the gastrointestinal tract of the infant is not able to cope with other products except breast milk or special mixtures. It is recommended to give the child water along with the beginning of complementary feeding (4-6 months). It is better to offer the child a chest, sucking and swallowing movements soothe the diaphragm and help cope with hiccups.

In no case can you scare the baby with sharp sounds or pops. Stress causes great harm to a small body, in addition, such a method can threaten in the future stuttering.

Hiccup Medicines

Treatment with drugs requires only pathological hiccups that last several days and are accompanied by burning and other pain.

There are a number of drugs that relieve hiccups, for example, cerucal or various drugs for epilepsy. However, any of them should be taken only after consulting a doctor. Drugs for hiccups are prescribed taking into account the results of the tests and depend on the disease, the result of which is a long-term reduction in the diaphragm.

To make it easier for the doctor to determine the diagnosis, try to remember the symptoms that accompany hiccups. It can be sweating, heartburngeneral weakness or dizziness. By informing your doctor, you will help to more quickly recognize the disease.

So, hiccups do not harm our body, and sometimes render it a favor, expelling excess air from the stomach. But it can cause a person great inconvenience, especially if it catches up with him at an important meeting or in a crowded place. In order to prevent hiccups, try not to overeat, chew food slowly and carefully, do not abuse alcoholic beverages, and do not overcool.