Question: Why are we planning to send people to Mars when science can’t define a cure for the hic-ups?!

Spooking, Peanut Butter, Holding your breath or drinking water… backwards, none of it works. When I get the Hic-ups once, I get them all damned day. I hate it, more than anything in this world, even on Mars.

A quick search in Google brought me to this hilarious solution:

If you have the hic-ups take a glass of water put your thumbs in your ears your two index fingers pushing your nose together and with the rest of the fingers pick up the glass. Holding all routes for the hic-ups closed drink the water till you need a breath of air then afterwards you will burp and they will be gone.

Drowning yourself, to me, does not sound like a cure. Desperation, that is what brings us to such solutions, not science. Apparently this works, or at least the mental picture of someone attempting it does. Bonus points if you send in a picture of yourself demonstrating it.

Hic…

Update: Well, who knew, there actually is a cure. If you want to call it that, it’s called being “sedated.” Honestly, I’d try the drowning myself cure first.

Effective treatment with sedatives often requires a dose that renders the person either unconscious or highly lethargic. Hence, medicating singultus is done short-term, as the affected individual cannot continue with normal life activities while taking the medication.

My hic-ups are gone now…