Hiccups And The Cure

Hi guys, I got these information's at MayoClinic, and I decided to post it here. About the cure, I can't remember anymore the name of the website cuz its been a while.

Almost everyone has had hiccups. Some people even have them before they're born. "Singultus" is the medical term for hiccups, derived from the Latin word "singult," which means the act of catching your breath while sobbing, an apt description of the way hiccups sound. Although they can be embarrassing — especially if the "hic" pops out of your mouth in a quiet room or during a meeting — hiccups are rarely cause for concern.
Often, there's no obvious cause for hiccups. Sometimes they may be the result of eating a large meal, drinking a carbonated beverage or sudden excitement. Rarely, hiccups may be a sign of an underlying medical condition. Hiccups usually disappear on their own. If your hiccups don't go away after a few minutes, home remedies may help. If hiccups persist for more than 48 hours or if they are so severe that they interfere with eating or breathing, see your doctor.

The characteristic sound of a hiccup, sometimes preceded by a small tightening sensation in your chest, abdomen or throat, are the only signs and symptoms associated with hiccups. People may have as few as four hiccups a minute or, rarely, as many as 60 hiccups a minute.
How long your hiccup episode lasts determines the type of hiccups you have:
Transient or acute hiccups. This is the most common form of hiccups. Transient hiccups include hiccup episodes that last less than 48 hours. Most bouts of transient hiccups last only a few minutes. Persistent hiccups. These hiccups last longer than 48 hours, but less than a month. Intractable hiccups. Hiccups fall into this category when they last more than two months.

A hiccup is an unintentional contraction of your diaphragm — the muscle that separates your chest from your abdomen and plays an important role in breathing. This contraction makes your vocal cords close very briefly, which produces the sound of a hiccup. Although there's often no clear cause for a bout of hiccups, some factors that can trigger acute or transient hiccups include:
Eating spicy food. Spicy food may cause irritation to the nerves that control normal contractions of your diaphragm. Eating a large meal, drinking carbonated beverages or swallowing air. These can cause your stomach to expand (distend), which pushes up your diaphragm, making hiccups more likely. Drinking alcohol. Alcohol can relax your diaphragm and vocal cords, making it easier for other factors to trigger hiccups. Sudden temperature changes. A quick change in temperature, either inside or outside your body, such as drinking hot liquids and then cold liquids or your shower water switching suddenly from hot to cold, can set off hiccups. Tobacco use. Tobacco use may irritate the nerves that controls the diaphragm (phrenic nerves), causing hiccups. Sudden excitement or emotional stress. Although it's not clear why stress or sudden excitement causes hiccups, it may be due to the effect being startled has on one of the nerves involved in the hiccup reflex (vagus nerves). Rarely, hiccups may be the result of an underlying medical condition. When this is the case, the hiccups usually last longer than 48 hours. More than 100 causes of persistent and intractable hiccups have been identified. They are generally grouped into the following categories:
Nerve damage or irritation. Damage or irritation of one of your vagus nerves or phrenic nerves is the most common cause of persistent or intractable hiccups.
The vagus nerve serves as a communication pathway between your brain and organs, such as your heart, lungs and intestines. There's one vagus nerve on each side of your body. These nerves run from your brainstem through your neck and down to your chest and abdomen. The phrenic nerve controls movement of your diaphragm. There's one phrenic nerve on each side of your body. The phrenic nerves run from your brainstem through your neck and down to your diaphragm.
Examples of conditions that may damage or irritate these nerves include a foreign body (often a hair) in your ear, a tumor, cyst or goiter in your neck or chest, gastroesophageal reflux, or an abscess on your diaphragm.
Central nervous system disorders. A tumor or infection in your central nervous system, or damage to your central nervous system as a result of trauma, can release your body's normal control of the hiccup reflex. Metabolic disorders. Metabolic disorders that may cause hiccups include a condition that interferes with the ability of your kidneys to keep wastes from building to toxic levels (uremia) and a condition that results in less than the normal levels of carbon dioxide in your blood (hypocapnia). Surgery. General anesthesia and complications following surgery can cause intractable hiccups. Mental or emotional triggers. Anxiety, stress and excitement have been associated with some cases of persistent or intractable hiccups.

The Cure. It may not work for everybody. It sounds funny but this is what I found in searching for hiccups cure few years ago. At first, I keep laughing cause it's unbelievable, but then I told to myself, hmmnnn..... there's nothing to loose if I'll try it. So I did try it, and believe me or not, it works and I was so amazed. Do you wanna know what is it? Well, the cure for hiccups is WAITING. Yes, waiting is the cure. If ever hiccups strikes on you, stop whatever it is you're doing and concentrate on waiting for your next hiccups. Just concentrate, and you'll be surprised... the hiccups that you're waiting won't come back again. I tried it myself and it works. Hopefully it'll work for you too.