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Hiccups Part 2 (Teacher: Michael)

I've heard people say that hiccups sufferer should try holding his breath. And I've heard old wives tales which involve tickling sufferer's nose.

One man in America, who had hiccupped over 100 million times without stopping, was sent thousands of suggestions to help him stop habit.

Some of them from 'old wives'. Some of them from doctors.
None of them worked.

Then he tried praying to St Jude, patron saint of lost causes, and that did trick.

Personally, I think two remedies most likely to do trick are to first try breathing in and out of brown paper bag; and second, to try swallowing teaspoonful of granulated sugar.

The raw sugar remedy probably works by scraping against back of throat and stimulating nerve to suppress hiccups.

Breathing in and out of paper bag probably works because it alters concentration of carbon dioxide breathed in.

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