The Cure for Hiccups Exists. And it’s free. By Uri Bram. Getty; The Atlantic. February 22, 2023. Share. Save. ... which he deemed the effective threshold to stop hiccups in adults.

Children, teens, adults and dogs get hiccups. There is even a belief in the scientific community that all mammals get them, Seifi said. They are more common in younger humans, said Fox.

MARTÍNEZ: Dr. Morris published his cure for hiccups nearly 20 years ago. So why do so few people know about it? BRAM: Well, that was exactly my question and how I started writing the article.

To stop hiccups, many of the cures might feel just as startling as the condition itself. In fact, you’ve probably heard of asking someone to jump out and scare the hiccups right out of you.

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As well as straws designed to draw in liquids more slowly, there are other effective cures for persistent hiccups. They range from a digital rectal massage, to having your eyeballs mashed by a ...

The recent death of a Fort Hood U.S. Army soldier in Killeen, Texas, shows that a belief in the folk cure of scaring away hiccups can have tragic effects when taken to the extreme, but does the ...