Cure Persistent Hiccups
Medical Information on Treating Severe Hiccups – 48+ Hours
Info to Help Cure Persistent Hiccups
I have created this blog in an effort to help others find a cure for persistent hiccups which have lasted longer than 48 hours, and in most cases for several days.
This blog documents my experience with a severe bout of persistent hiccups that lasted 7 days, and what was finally done to cure them.
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Diaphragm Stimulation Exercise for Curing Hiccups
Let’s take a look at another good breathing exercise to help you cure the hiccups. This exercise uses a combination of controlled breathing and visualization to stimulate the diaphragm and cure your hiccups.
This is another good breathing exercise to practice as it promotes good mental health, stress relief and lowers blood pressure.
By nature the hiccups are occurring because your diaphragm is working against your body instead of with it. This exercise is designed to get the two working together in order to cure your hiccups.
How to Stimulate Your Diaphragm to Cure the Hiccups
- First take several slow deep breaths. While you are doing this focus on the feeling you have in your abdomen.
- As you take in a slow deep breath feel you chest and lungs expand as allow your stomach muscles to relax.
- While doing this you should feel the muscle wall between your chest and abdomen drop down.
- Breath out, and as you do focus on the feeling of your chest contacting. As you do this, tighten and pull up your stomach muscles. This will raise your stomach wall.
- The best way to visualize this is by imagining that will you are breathing you need to make space for the air in your chest. When you breathe out visualize how this space contracts within your body.
This is the basic method used for controlled breathing by singers, martial artists and yoga practitioners as well as many other sports and hobbies that utilize controlling your breath.
Practice this exercise for several minutes and you should notice that your hiccups have been cured. If your hiccups have not gone away by this point be patient and try another exercise on the site to help cure your hiccups.
Cure the Hiccups through Visualization and Breathing Exercises
This method for curing the hiccups is another breathing exercise that is easy to do anywhere at anytime. It focuses on controlled breathing and visualization techniques to help get rid of your hiccups.
Visualization can be an important part of curing the hiccups since many documented instances of hiccups point to a neurological influence on the hiccups.
This next cure uses both breathing exercises and mental visualization to correct the physical and neurological aspects of the hiccups.
Breathing in a Figure Eight to Cure the Hiccups
- Start by closing your eyes and imagining the shape of a figure eight in your mind.
- As you picture the figure 8 in your mind, begin slow controlled breathing.
- Imagine your breath flowing in and out of your body in the shape of the figure eight.
- As the air rolls into your lungs it enters your body and curls back upward at the bottom of your abdomen turning into an exhale.
- The exhale then flows out of your mouth in a circle and re-enters your body as you slowly begin to inhale again.
- The key here is slow controlled breathing with no abrupt pause between inhaling and exhaling. It is important to make the breaths flow into one another as you inhale and exhale.
In addition to curing the hiccups this controlled breathing technique helps promote good health and lowers blood pressure.
After performing this exercise for a few minutes your hiccups should be cured. If you are still experiencing the hiccups I would recommend trying some of the other exercises I outline on the site.
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