Yes ladies and gentlemen, this foolproof remedy for hiccups works every time! And in a matter of seconds!! This inexpensive, ordinary household staple is none other than (drumroll please...): PEANUT BUTTER! Yes folks its very simple. When you find yourself plagued by the annoying and sometimes painful hiccups (also knows as hiccoughs), simply scoop out a spoonful of creamy peanut butter and take a big bite. The concentration exerted by the brain to prevent choking on the thick, creamy peanut butter takes all the attention away from those pesky hiccups and they dissipate immediately. No more scaring the beejeebers out of yourself, holding your breath, drinking water upside down, or focusing on taking your hiccup out and putting it in your hand (a vain attempt to distract the brain from allowing hiccups). Once you try the peanut butter method you will never go back to the other methods again.
Warning: Please do not attempt this if you have even the remotest allergy to peanuts!
Endorsement: This remedy is wholeheartedly endorsed by the author of this blog.
Disclaimer: The author has not attempted this remedy using crunchy peanut butter and cannot vouch for its effectiveness or safety.
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Hey, Steph,
I see you get the idea that most hiccup (singultus) remedies are difficult, distressing or embarassing.I like your description. I know you love your peanut butter methos, but really it falls into the same catagories as all the others. They are ALL silly kiddie-cures! How does a business person giving a sales presentation use this? a tele-marketer, a surgeon, musician about to perform??? See, what we need is a REAL science based remedy. The spasms of the diaghragm are initiated by the Vagus and Phrenic nerves, so they need to be "re-set". All the distraction and swallowing cures (this one is both) are desperate attempts to do this indirectly. I discovered that last month a patent was issued to a guy whop has invented a REAL cure. It is science based and a Class III medical device. It is supposed to re-set the nerves and cure the hiccups, safely, instantly and DISCREETLY. Can't wait for it to hit the market!Read more at wikipedia.com/hiccups or at my blog http://HiccupHell.blogspot.com.
I am not giving you a "hard" time, just raising awareness about an under-rated social and performance issue and how we are conditioned to accept it and painfully resigned at these ridiculous folk remedies.
PS> Did you know people have died from the hiccups? Or that 30% of chemo patients get them as a side effect?
kb, thank you for your in-depth and informative response to this post. I did not know those amazing facts and feel much more intelligent b/c of them. :)
i'm guessing the REAL cure will be pretty expensive, so i'll have to be content with my "kiddie cure" which is the only one that has actually worked! As long as you can have pb handy when you least expect it!
I had the hiccups yesterday and I tried this little remedy. IT WORKED! Thanks Stephenie! You practicly saved my life.
I'll have to try that next time! I have a cure that always works, but it looks really goofy...not sure how I came up with it.
Can I pretend to have hiccups just so I have an excuse to eat a big spoon of peanut butter? :) (I've always enjoyed peanut butter!)
so jeff, what is your curious cure that always works? pray tell!
Okay, since you asked ;)
Take in the absolutely largest breath you can, completely and entriely filling your lungs, hold your breath, then stand on your tip toes, tilt your head up, and stretch your arms as high to the sky as possible. Do this as long as you possibly can hold in the breath.
It will appear that you are looking at and reaching for the ceiling, but it works! Must be the combination of holding alot of air and completely stretching yourself out as long as possible.
Our old sales manager used to laugh about this, until she got the hiccups, went into the restroom, did this funky thing, and came out without the hiccups. :P
jeff what a cure just had the hiccups and di your stretchy thing now no more hiccups
Thanks dude, now i have peanut-butter breath everytime i hiccup.I hope your woman is happy to be married to an idiot. I'm sure you are a moron, and you know you are too!!I think i know where your peanut butter ideas come from.
I have been trying to get rid of these hiccups for hours and immediately after a spoon full of Jif they are gone. I highly doubt that the loudmouth Anonymous poster really even tried it and if he did he's probably just a freak of nature or likes negative attention LOL.
I just did it too. The stretchy one by Jeff. Stood on my tip-toes, reached for the sky and held a big breath. Worked instantly. Nice!
Thanks, this worked, I was getting desperate!
Efficient info to cure the Hiccough at instant in a simple way was good and reliable to eradicate and to obtain the best result, Thanks a lot..
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