Hiccup cures that are backed by science

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Hiccup cures that are backed by science

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Inspired by a straw that can cure hiccups, I looked into the science behind other well known antidotes (and a couple of less familiar ones). Feat. gagging, toilet procedures, and a mood killer.
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References
The FISST/HiccAway article
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Paper that calls the straw drinking method a ‘miracle’. Mentions various others including the Valsalva manoeuvre.
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Another paper on various treatments. EVEN smoking marijuana.
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IgNobel prizes ’06 feat. Dr Fran’s Anti-Hiccup Kit
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The case of the bloke whose hiccups stopped when he had sex
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General info on singultus
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@donaldasayers 2 жыл бұрын

As a teacher I gave detentions for hiccoughs. The shock of getting a manifestly unfair punishment for an autonomous reflex cured the hiccoughs instantly. Of course I rescinded the detention. Worked nearly every time, except for one lad who decided to argue the toss while still hiccoughing. Which was really funny.

@TheLlawlliet 2 жыл бұрын

"performing a toilet procedure" is one of those euphemisms that's actually more embarassing to say than the words it's supposed to replace; love it.

@misterscottintheway 3 жыл бұрын

I've been a subscriber since John Green mentioned you a while ago but haven't actually watched any videos until this one. Loved it. Giggled a few times and learned something!

@williandalsoto806 3 жыл бұрын

that's exactly what I was gonna say, so if I understand internet manners, I must say same.

@andrewwmitchell 3 жыл бұрын

Soph's humour is a common thread with her videos. I highly recommend trying some other videos. I've enjoyed every single one I've watched.

@lysaali50 3 жыл бұрын

coward, not watching until Soph gets the John Green card

@misterscottintheway 3 жыл бұрын

@@lysaali50 ?

@AO2437. 3 жыл бұрын

I'm subscribed from him too, watched one or two of her videos before this but not many

@esther-0289 3 жыл бұрын

"if you dont like swallowing..." yeah ok Soph, I caught that millisecond pause.

@PuzzleQodec 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't and now I did. Hahahaha

@chrisradtke 3 жыл бұрын

"since you asked, I will look into that more" 😂

@DavidLindes 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, 6:26 is something I wouldn’t mind knowing more about. Further research needed! 🙃🤣

@mariannetfinches Жыл бұрын

I've never looked forward to my next bout of hiccups before 😂

@SophsNotes 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, a lot went down in '06. Comment what makes your hiccups ✨ voila ✨ disappear! EDIT - so many good ones! If the video didn’t cure your hiccups, the comments probably will… Also! If anyone is wondering - I don't have covid! I'm just self isolating because the NHS told me to. All the more time to make rude jokes in a video about hiccups.

@gloriouslumi 3 жыл бұрын

Tablespoon of sugar with a gulp of water. Works every time.

@tommyphillips8547 3 жыл бұрын

Drink a glass of water while turning it around in your hands. Works 2000% of the time :)

@maxximumb 3 жыл бұрын

Scaring the pants off someone works. A single scare actually works several times. My wife had persistent hiccups and I shouted BOO!!! really loudly, when she wasn't expecting it. That scare cured her hiccups. Now when she gets hiccups again, I ask if she would like me to cure her hiccups again. Not surprisingly, she doesn't want scaring again. But frequently her hiccups stop after the mere mention of repeating the original scare.

@SophsNotes 3 жыл бұрын

I always find I never successfully scare people when I try scaring them. I’ll have to take lessons from you if even the thought of one of your BOOs is enough to send the hiccups packing hahah

@andrewgoodall2183 3 жыл бұрын

I spent all my adult life unfailingly stopping hiccups by just relaxing back in my seat and breathing slowly and deeply, just as if going to sleep. This has led to plenty of pisstaking in the pub where folks think I've passed out. Still do it though, 'cos it always works :D .

@mikeychrisanthus9948 2 жыл бұрын

I literally always go straight to breath holding because it works anywhere. Even if it takes a few tries, you don’t have to get anything else for the process.

@carochalu8756 3 жыл бұрын

I literally just drink a glass of water slowly, it works like 95% of the time

@manderse12 3 жыл бұрын

Been a subscriber since John Green's recommendation, and now, when I see a Soph's Notes vid, I watch it immediately. Soph, you're wonderful!

@SophsNotes 3 жыл бұрын

Aw thank you!

@sambeawesome 3 жыл бұрын

My mom's cure has always worked for me, and sounds similar to what you've mentioned. Hold your breath for ten seconds then take a big gulp of water. (If you hiccup during the 10 seconds, start over. Not sure how necessary that last part is, but I do it anyway xD) These other ones sound interesting though, thanks for sharing! Will absolutely be sending it to my partner who often struggles with hiccups.

@jazzygeofferz 2 жыл бұрын

I sometimes start hiccuping if I eat stuff with jalapenos. It doesn't have to be particularly hot and super spicy, just sometimes if there are jalapenos involved it'll set me off hiccupping.

@ItsRadishTime 3 жыл бұрын

when I was A Youth if my ballet teacher heard me hiccuping in class, she would stop the music, stop class, and command me to hiccup, immediately, in front of everyone. Almost always the hiccups stopped immediately, and I couldn't fulfill the hiccup command. I'm guessing this was bewilderment at work. Also why it doesn't work when I'm just with family at home, because embarrassment in front of my whole ballet class was probably a necessary ingredient.

@SophsNotes 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes! I’ve tried that with friends and family and it doesn’t work, so you’re right - the embarrassment ingredient must be key. I guess the ‘dangling money’ anecdote might have worked in the same way.. very good point!

@IIVQ 2 жыл бұрын

One thing that surprizes me is that in comics, drunks always have the hiccups, yet I have never ever seen a drunk person hiccup. Why and when did this trope get into comics?

@SolaireIntensifies 3 жыл бұрын

What the hell, Sophie. You couldn't have posted this yesterday when I was plagued ALL DAY with hiccups? Oh well, future me thanks you!

@wayne00k Жыл бұрын

John Adams, US founding father and 2nd president, remarked late in life to Thomas Jefferson (also a founding father and 3rd president) that he despised Plato (350 bce or thereabouts) because he found "The Republic" to be a most impractical exercise defining government. However, Adams did praise Plato for his most excellent cure for hiccups: the Sneeze. Adams' preferred sneeze inducer was "snuff" but I have found that a wax-stiffened thread inserted up one's nostril and lightly twirled is just as effective a method to promote a robust sneeze to bring a halt to any case of hiccups. Love your channel btw - hope you continue sharing :)

@joeh7465 3 жыл бұрын

I always found that looking up and swallowing three times works. I guess the swallowing makes sense, never understood the looking up part!

@elzar5987 2 жыл бұрын

My neice had hiccups while we were both sitting on the couch. She was on her phone distracted so as hard and fast as I could I WACKED the sofa with no warning scaring the hiccups right out of her. I love being an uncle

@DampeS8N 3 жыл бұрын

Gosh. I just hold my breath. After a few minutes the hiccups go away. Which might just be because I wait a few minutes, but it is fun to break out at parties because most people can't hold their breath for over two minutes and it is just long enough to invariably get an impressed "Wait, are you still holding your breath???"

@SophsNotes 3 жыл бұрын

Consider me also impressed, 2 minutes+ is amazing!

@giveaquestion9683 2 жыл бұрын

''I'd cure their hiccups'' is my new favourite euphemism.

@mikoajp.5890 2 жыл бұрын

I'm using a variant of bewilderment: stirring sugar. Not eating it, just stirring for few minutes. Sometimes just imagining the activity for a few minutes is enough. I guess that getting one's mind focused enough on whatever attention-grabbing is ok

@bacchic6676 2 жыл бұрын

This was hilarious. Thank u Tom Scott!!

@nemtudom5074 2 жыл бұрын

9:48 Yea.... I am prone to hiccups and doing that even for just 30 minutes at a time is bloody awful. I dont even want to imagine hiccuping for 48 hours..... My record of like, 4 hours was flipping atrocious, ugh

@AliSeifiMD 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you ! That was a great video about hiccups and you explained my HiccAway very well 👍 that was great 😀

@AliSeifiMD 3 жыл бұрын

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@AliSeifiMD 3 жыл бұрын

Watch this user’s video. She is a lifelong Hiccuper !

@SophsNotes 3 жыл бұрын

Oh hey! You’re the inventor of the HiccAway, right? Thanks for watching!!

@AliSeifiMD 3 жыл бұрын

@@SophsNotes Yes I am 😀! And I love your videos ! If possible can we collaborate on this topic ? Message me at doctorseifi@gmail.com

@NoahDeLong 3 жыл бұрын

Soooo much free flowing innuendo... I always enjoy your sense of humor, "Bad Jokes" and all, it's great. Big deep breath in, hold, exhale without actually exhaling, more inhaling motion with some actual inhaling if you can, repeat for as long as you can, slow smooth exhale for real, and relax. Don't make yourself blackout, and repeat if needed.

@brianhebert9497 3 жыл бұрын

I love how freely you say things… love your videos keep up the good work

@markpbly1981 Жыл бұрын

I came here with hiccups, and just concentrating and listening cured me! So glad, didn't fancy a finger up the....😅

@logarhythmic6859 3 жыл бұрын

I had the hiccups once in fifth grade and my teacher asked me to stand up and hiccup 20 times in the next minute. I couldn't hiccup once. Since then I try to do the same thing and it works fairly reliably.

@mariannetfinches Жыл бұрын

This sounds fun to try!

@anshik.k.t 3 жыл бұрын

It just got recommend to me and..... I am already subscribed I have no idea when did I subscribe??

@GaraksApprentice 3 жыл бұрын

Fun things about the valsalva manoeuvre - weightlifters often do it when they're going for PRs, as it increases abdominal pressure and makes it (a bit) easier to lift heavier weights. You're also supposed to strictly avoid it during childbirth as it can increase the risk of tearing and other not-fun things. (Seriously, some of the material aimed at the pregnant population makes it sound like you'll spontaneously explode or something.)

@IIVQ 2 жыл бұрын

I always use the "what did you have for dinner last night?" until I once met someone who was an amateur cook and had a system for combining (or not combining) certain foods over consecutive days (for dietary reasons) and could remember everything he had eaten for well over a month without much thought going in to it. Then I just startled him which did the trick.

@Feral_Fruit 3 жыл бұрын

When I try to anticipate when the next hiccup will come it sometimes makes them stop, but the one I swear by is holding in a deep breath and drinking water

@himanshugautam3224 3 жыл бұрын

I get hiccups once in a while but when they do its like Bazookas , literally my whole body moves when it happens and the sound is as you can guess is really loud . But i have used this trick very simple ,old and popular. Water drink it right at the moment when a hiccup comes up, kind of in a way like you are shoving it down with water . Works for me almost 95% of the time .

@javiTests 2 жыл бұрын

It has been years since I learnt by myself to control them. Since then, I have one or two maximum and that's it. I learnt this technique because I'm stubborn as hell, so I don't stop until I achieve something. I don't know if it can be applied to you 😂. Basically what I did was to pay a lot of attention what happened when I got hiccups and I discovered that you (or at least me) can actually feel what the diaphragm is doing! What I do when I have hiccups is to breathe kind of slowly until I cannot inhale more and then exhale when you notice the diaphragm is "going down". It typically takes no more than 5-10 seconds and if you do it "in sync" it works every time. At the beginning it took a bit but as I said I haven't had more than two in a row in 15 years or so. Just take your time to feel what's happening when you have them. The sensation of "the diaphragm going down" is very weak/faint but you'll learn to feel it 😄. It's kind of similar when you swallow something dry and you feel it going down through the oesophagus.

@kevinrakestraw3787 3 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t tell you how I ended up on your channel but you’re hilarious lol. Quality content. Subbed!

@mattmccune2778 3 жыл бұрын

The one that works for me is this. Sit on the floor, tuck your knees to your chest, heels to your butt, hug your legs with your arms and try to bring your forehead to your knees. Do all this as tightly as you can. They usually will go away within 10-15 sec.

@lysaali50 3 жыл бұрын

*heels in your butt 😁

@ery5757 2 жыл бұрын

Fun side effect of singing lessons: I can now stop hiccups by just focusing on my natural breathing.

@arazriel 3 жыл бұрын

Missed you Soph, thanks for the great vid!

@nonpareil7951 2 жыл бұрын

the covering ears while drinking water trick has worked every time in my experience. Another person really helps; you want to cover the ears pretty tightly.

@thebuzzah 3 жыл бұрын

I get the hiccups frequently and a while back, a friend suggested lighting matches and extinguishing them in water. Then drink the water. Usually works. Not for drunk hiccups though.

@z_patches91 Жыл бұрын

I usually trigger a gag reflex to get rid of mine. Haven't had an instance where it didn't work for me.

@WAHa06x36 Жыл бұрын

All of the supposed cures and even the Valsalva manoeuvre seem like overcomplicating it to me. I've found that all that you ACTUALLY need to do is sit down, be calm, and focus on breathing regularly and intentionally. A few minutes of doing that will get rid of hiccups every time for me. The length of time you need to do it will get shorter with a bit of experience. Just do not cough, that will immediately bring the hiccups back.

@grimacet3321 3 жыл бұрын

My cure is swallowing some water upside down. I don’t know why it works but it always fixes the hiccups for me and many others

@katielittle838 3 жыл бұрын

Hi just watched your video on Nebula, had me laughing so much. My husband is a nutter and to stop my hiccups which had been ongoing for 3 days he pressed a flaming hot 1 pence right between my boobs. I haven't had hiccups again that was 19yrs ago when we had only been for 8 months. I definitely wouldn't recommend it, the mark is still visible to this day.

@SophsNotes 3 жыл бұрын

Blimey that’s a new one! I’m impressed you stayed with him after that, Its definitely far down the list of cures I’d try 😅 but congrats on 19 years hiccup free!

@prabhbanikaur.1 3 жыл бұрын

when i was a kid, my hiccups started whenever i ate something super spicy, and my dumbass thought that eating sugar would REVERSE them 😑😣

@1one2two3threetwoone 3 жыл бұрын

Isolation inspiration station

@mariannetfinches Жыл бұрын

Dude! I watched this video a few days ago, & this morning I started hiccuping. Was getting ready for work so no time for sex. Already had my morning poo thanks for asking. Thought "OK, bewilderment it is! Wait, how do you bewilder yourself?" Turns out asking yourself that question is one way. Hiccups stopped instantly 😂 Didn't expect this to come in handy so soon. Thanks for the help!

@kneau 2 жыл бұрын

My hiccup cure: a very chewy protein bar.

@JackBarlowStudios 2 жыл бұрын

“Maybe you’d like it.” Ok, sure. Just call me out, why don’t you?

@CoralBalmoral 2 жыл бұрын

Just vinegar. One to two teaspoons works every time 👍

@DavidLindes 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting! I had a go-to with one partner of doing something to startle/“scare” them. I don’t like using this one with people I haven’t got a fairly close relationship with, though, or at least without getting prior consent (which of course makes it harder to do immediately afterwards, because it’s harder to startle someone who’s expecting you to try to)… so bewilderment seems a lovely [side note: I swear I just hiccuped! It was a one-off, I’m pretty sure, but how funny!] alternative, with much less need for consent. I might try the bribe thing, too. ;)

@corro202 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video.

@MeppyMan 2 жыл бұрын

I tried the finger one… I didn’t have hiccups though, so unsure if it is effective or not.

@twothreebravo 3 жыл бұрын

What happens in Phrenic stays in Phrenic

@WouterWeggelaar 3 жыл бұрын

I'm also really interested in why especially English and Americans are so shy to say poo or anything related to bodily processes! I've never had hiccups that long to go looking for cures. I'd say something like half an hour max? not enough to make me desperately look for a cure.

@thisisfine4093 3 жыл бұрын

My acute hiccups seem to occur a few times a day when they appear, and repeat that process for 1-3 days, why do they repeat like that?

@motivate668 2 жыл бұрын

I have had hiccups since July 2021.. I'm on, gabapentin300 mg, Chlorpromazine 10 mg.... anytime I eat or drink ANYTHING.. the hiccups occur... until I force myself to vomit by sticking something down my throat..... I can barely take my meds because anytime I drink water etc .. the hiccups are present .. I have tried every home remedy possible... I am going absolutely bat shit crazy.. MRI, CT, Endoscopy. all have been done.. who has a bullet I can use.

@luismijangos7844 3 жыл бұрын

6:00 I laughed so hard at that joke that it cured my hiccup hahahahahahahahahah

@jessicaamey8160 3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't you just pitch the end of a regular straw to get the same effect as the fisst?

@TheLonelyGod42 3 жыл бұрын

I had somebody recently stop my hiccups by offering me $100 if I hiccuped again!

@charanvantijn541 2 жыл бұрын

So how do you study a cure for hiccups? Can you do something to your test volunteers to get hiccups?

@daanwilmer 3 жыл бұрын

Those aggressively chirping birds would be Passer domesticus, or your garden variety house sparrow.

@SophsNotes 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! We have so many of them here. So sweet and so loud

@robinvanoverbeke85 2 жыл бұрын

love the video, but i heared "a cute hiccup" and totally accepted it, till i heard it again to hear 'acute' hiccup xD

@thatcandont 2 жыл бұрын

Damn you, youtube, clicked on this thinking it was new. You effers

@ihabkharboutli3150 3 жыл бұрын

Hold you’re breath for 15-20 seconds and then chug a BIG glass of water all in one go! Inspired by Jimmy Neutrons hiccuping cure (I think he uses chocolate milk) and has never failed me in the ten years I’ve been doing it

@jacquiz.6837 3 жыл бұрын

When I was about 10, I had a science teacher who taught us to give ourselves hiccups and then cure them by manipulating the vagus and phrenic nerves. It was very cool, but I don't remember how to give myself hiccups anymore.

@SophsNotes 3 жыл бұрын

Whaat that’s so interesting. I love science teachers who show you how to do experiments on your own body haha, will have to look into that one..

@aisekaisebc 3 жыл бұрын

@@SophsNotes vagus is the craziest if all cranial nerves. It goes down to the dudonem and is also responsible for gastric emptying. So if you’re ever in an all-you-can-eat challenge, stimulating the vagus by putting a tiny drop of water in your ear canal (also supplied by vagus) can speed up the emptying. A little fun fact my anatomy teacher taught me.

@hegelsmonster5521 3 жыл бұрын

Pooping is taboo!

@thelmatellez2845 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like what I use because I use little bit warm water and I also use something that we call tic tacs in America it's a little piece of sugar but it gives your body something to do besides hiccup cuz I get hiccup attacks and yuck LOL

@veronicamollod 3 жыл бұрын

I drink water upside down to stop hiccups when I get them.

@quakquak6141 3 жыл бұрын

sneezing works for me every time, it's probably placebo but who knows

@gds9839 3 жыл бұрын

are you ok? sneezing is NOT normal

@quakquak6141 3 жыл бұрын

@@gds9839 I don't sneeze as a reaction to hiccups, it's just that if I have hiccups and I happen to sneeze that makes the hiccups stop

@someelephant6268 3 жыл бұрын

u'r fun

@brendanmooney7607 3 жыл бұрын

Soph's Notes Sexual Innuendo Drinking Game FTW! :)

@yogyakarakasia3859 3 жыл бұрын

Can we have scientific methods to cure hairfall after this? Because my lack of attention to any video that doesn't have your bad jokes might make me bald.

@SophsNotes 3 жыл бұрын

Haha I’ll see what I can do!!