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Holding your breath while pinching your nose is supposed to stop hiccups, but does anything actually cure hiccups?
Liz Reuben Canberra, Australia
As a child, I was taught that hiccups were an effect of the diaphragm being in spasm. I find swallowing multiple small sips of water usually brings hiccups to an end within a few minutes.
I have no idea if this is because of some effect I am creating or some kind of learned response, but it consistently works.
Martin van Raay Culemborg, The Netherlands
A hiccup is an involuntary contraction of the diaphragm. As the diaphragm is…
