Bob Muncie wrote:
> Becca wrote:
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>
>>> If you swallow the pencil you'll squawk like a chicken!\
>>
>> Thanks for the giggle. :-)
>> The home remedy that is almost 100% effective for hiccups is sugar.
>> Eat a spoonful of sugar and the hiccups will stop immediately. For
>> babies, you can dissolve sugar in a little water, administer via baby
>> bottle and their hiccups will stop. This truly works.
>>
>>
>> Becca
>
> I am willing to learn from any source. Learning is good.
>
> What about sugar stops the hiccups?
>
> I'm just curious, not being facetious.
>
> Bob

Sugar has always worked but I am not sure why. At first I thought it
was a placebo effect, but when I saw it work on a baby, then I realized
it had something to do with the sugar. It works immediately, like magic.


Becca

In article >,
Becca > wrote:

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> >
> > If you swallow the pencil you'll squawk like a chicken!\
>
> Thanks for the giggle. :-)
>
>
> The home remedy that is almost 100% effective for hiccups is sugar. Eat
> a spoonful of sugar and the hiccups will stop immediately. For babies,
> you can dissolve sugar in a little water, administer via baby bottle and
> their hiccups will stop. This truly works.
>
>
> Becca

I'll keep that one in mind.


Hiccups are damned uncomfortable!
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down."
--Steve Rothstein


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Becca wrote:

> Eat a spoonful of sugar and the hiccups will stop immediately.

I've heard that it also helps the medicine go down.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=djQdI1t9_Ag

Bob

On Tue 25 Aug 2009 10:24:48p, Bob Terwilliger told us...

> Becca wrote:
>
>> Eat a spoonful of sugar and the hiccups will stop immediately.
>
> I've heard that it also helps the medicine go down.
>
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=djQdI1t9_Ag
>
> Bob
>

Only if you're part of a large Austrian family.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen.
Emily Lotney

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:52:27 -0400, Goomba >
wrote:

>blake murphy wrote:
> i
>> have used the eating spoonful of sugar method before.
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>>
>
>My mother always swore by that cure.

I seem to recall an actual physiological basis for the spoon-of-sugar
method, something about the granular material stimulating nerve
endings in the back of the throat. The researchers who studied that
method wanted to do additional experiments to confirm, but couldn't
find anyone willing to swallow a spoonful of sand...

Terry

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:52:27 -0400, Goomba wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
> i
>> have used the eating spoonful of sugar method before.
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>>
>
> My mother always swore by that cure.

i thought to consult cecil adams, my source for the straight dope on such
arcana:

<http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1113/what-are-hiccups-and-why-do-we-get-them>

...but he doesn't seem to come up with much either. he does mention the
sugar cure (semi-ob food) though.


your pal,
blake

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:58:51 -0500, Terry wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:52:27 -0400, Goomba >
> wrote:
>
>>blake murphy wrote:
>> i
>>> have used the eating spoonful of sugar method before.
>>>
>>> your pal,
>>> blake
>>>
>>
>>My mother always swore by that cure.
>
> I seem to recall an actual physiological basis for the spoon-of-sugar
> method, something about the granular material stimulating nerve
> endings in the back of the throat. The researchers who studied that
> method wanted to do additional experiments to confirm, but couldn't
> find anyone willing to swallow a spoonful of sand...
>
> Terry

cecil's article says it has something to do with stimulation of the vagus
or phrenic nerves.

your pal,
blake

"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
...
> Omelet wrote:
>> In article >,
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry for the double posts.
>
>> I never saw them.
>>
>> What I do for hiccups that works every time is to pour about 8 to 10
>> oz. of room temp water and sip it quickly down in small sips while
>> holding my breath.
>
> That's my method! Knock on wood I rarely get the hiccups, they
> are so annoying. And I know once I get them, I'll keep getting them for
> the next few days.
> That should be the worst of my troubles, right?
>
> nancy



Swallow a teaspoonful of granulated sugar. My doctor told me about this and
it absolutely works. Calms the irritated nerves in the esophagus and makes
the hiccups go away. Failing that, some Angostura bitters in a bit of
ginger ale.

Jill

blake murphy wrote:

>
> cecil's article says it has something to do with stimulation of the vagus
> or phrenic nerves.
>
> your pal,
> blake

phrenic. The phrenic nerve is the major nerve that innervates your
diaphragm and allows you to move the diaphragm allowing you to breath.
When the diaphragm is irritated (for many reasons) that can cause hiccups.

Goomba wrote:
>
> blake murphy wrote:
>
> > cecil's article says it has something to do with stimulation of the vagus
> > or phrenic nerves.
>
> phrenic. The phrenic nerve is the major nerve that innervates your
> diaphragm and allows you to move the diaphragm allowing you to breath.
> When the diaphragm is irritated (for many reasons) that can cause hiccups.

It can also be caused by radiation treatment
for brain cancer.

In article >,
Goomba > wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>
> >
> > cecil's article says it has something to do with stimulation of the vagus
> > or phrenic nerves.
> >
> > your pal,
> > blake
>
> phrenic. The phrenic nerve is the major nerve that innervates your
> diaphragm and allows you to move the diaphragm allowing you to breath.
> When the diaphragm is irritated (for many reasons) that can cause hiccups.

Goomba, how does Thorazine help that? I'm curious. :-) Seriously...
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down."
--Steve Rothstein


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Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> Goomba > wrote:
>
>> blake murphy wrote:
>>
>>> cecil's article says it has something to do with stimulation of the vagus
>>> or phrenic nerves.
>>>
>>> your pal,
>>> blake
>> phrenic. The phrenic nerve is the major nerve that innervates your
>> diaphragm and allows you to move the diaphragm allowing you to breath.
>> When the diaphragm is irritated (for many reasons) that can cause hiccups.
>
> Goomba, how does Thorazine help that? I'm curious. :-) Seriously...

<shrug> I have no clue how? I never questioned it or researched it. But
it is the commonly prescribed drug for intractable hiccups. Just one of
those "off label uses" for meds.

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:03:29 -0400, Goomba wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>
>>
>> cecil's article says it has something to do with stimulation of the vagus
>> or phrenic nerves.
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
> phrenic. The phrenic nerve is the major nerve that innervates your
> diaphragm and allows you to move the diaphragm allowing you to breath.
> When the diaphragm is irritated (for many reasons) that can cause hiccups.

cecil says it can be either:

Lots of other things can cause hiccups too, some of them pretty scary.
Skimming through a long list, I see skull fracture, epilepsy, diabetes
mellitus, myocardial infarction, tuberculosis, meningitis, bowel
obstruction, and ulcerative colitis.

But it's not always, or even usually, so bad. A 27-year-old man complained
that he'd been hiccuping for four days. The doctor looked into the guy's
ear and saw a hair tickling the eardrum. The hair having been washed out,
the hiccups stopped.

[...]

Or maybe they're just, you know, hiccups--an accidental reflex triggered by
a stimulus to (usually) the vagus or phrenic nerves. This travels up the
line to a nerve control center that for some reason sends out a "commence
hiccup" impulse via the phrenic nerve.

The vagus and phrenic nerves go all over, which explains why so many things
cause hiccups. For example, a 16-year-old girl began hiccuping after
receiving a blow to the jaw. A brain scan found that a blood vessel was
pressing against the vagus nerve in her neck. Surgeons inserted a Teflon
spacer between the nerve and the blood vessel, and the hiccuping stopped.
When the spacer later fell out the hiccuping resumed.

<http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1113/what-are-hiccups-and-why-do-we-get-them>

your pal,
blake

blake murphy wrote:

> But it's not always, or even usually, so bad. A 27-year-old man complained
> that he'd been hiccuping for four days. The doctor looked into the guy's
> ear and saw a hair tickling the eardrum. The hair having been washed out,
> the hiccups stopped.

LOL LOL LOL... have you ever seen those old guys with patches of hair
sproutin' from their ears (and sometimes nose)??? ewwwwwwwwww!!
Who knew?!