Monty by Jim Meddick for May 18, 2023

Simple cure for the hiccups, dunk your head in a 5 gallon bucket of water 3 times and remove it twice, also works for headaches.

There’s one born every minute

“Boo!”

Maybe he should try standing on one leg and clucking like a chicken.

Green Tabasco works better. Swallow a spoonful, then, you slam your finger in a door.

Hold your breath and take seven sips of water. Works every time.

It always works for me to induce a deep burp. Any carbonated beverage works, but I usually chug half a can of diet coke, do the burp, hiccups gone.

Product placement day at Monty’s monetized comic strip.

I have never heard of the books stacked on the head to cure hiccups. That is something new that doesn’t seem to work anyhow. Also, the clothes pins on the nose and ears are different. I wonder where he found clothes pins. He never hangs his laundry.

Many years ago, my doctor had me drink water from a glass with a paper towel over it. It worked instantly. He said that enzymes in the towel helped balance the O2 & CO2 in the lungs and bloodstream. It’s always worked since. I told a young cashier at Bugle Boy’s and she looked at me like I was mad as a hatter but as I was shopping with my daughter, she slipped to the back room and tried it. As we were checking out, she found me to give me a hug thankful she could breathe easy again. It just simply works.

I’ve always understood this to be a case of relaxing. The task you are attempting sort of redirects your attention (and your tension), and you relax. What works for me is simply holding my breath and concentrating on relaxing.

Eat a sweet pickle.

Swallowing a teaspoon of sugar is one of the more scientific methods. The grains stimulate the vagus nerve which seems to reset the hiccup twitch to normal. Any granular substance would do – sand or salt, for instance – but most people prefer sugar. If it doesn’t work, don’t keep eating more sugar. It won’t help.

I once hiccupped for three days before a Physics exam. After a day of it, I went to the doctor and told him I had psychosomatic hiccups. He gave me Valium. I went home and took one. When the pictures on the wall starting going 3-D I realized there was no way I could study on that drug and stopped taking it. Halfway through the exam, my hiccups stopped.

actually there is an acupressure point on 2nd finger 1st joint that usually can stop hiccups

The spaz has spasms.

Hmmm…now that I think about it, I haven’t hiccuped in years. I think it’s more frequent when you are young.

Look out, he’s gonna blow!

Eat a teaspoon of cinnamon? (Do NOT try without water nearby!)

According to this article — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup — “American Charles Osborne (14 December 1892 – 1 May 1991) had hiccups for 68 years, from 1922 to February 1990, and was entered in the Guinness World Records as the man with the longest attack of hiccups, an estimated 430 million hiccups.” The article also lists many folk remedies said to cure hiccups.

 Smithsonian magazine has more detail about the unfortunate Mr. Osborne: smithsonianmag.com/history/the-curious-case-of-charles-osborne-who-hiccuped-for-68-years-straight-180980232/

Someone gave me the Heimlich Maneuver. I don’t know if it was fear or the action itself that stopped the hiccups. :)

If the right one don’t get ya, then the left one will! https://tinyurl.com/4ys4f3xw

Not such a great idea to combine all those home remedies, Montague Montahue!

Hold your breath, lean way over, drink water and think about zebras. It doesn’t work if you don’t think about zebras.