Last time I had hiccups I remembered coming across this in one of my antique books. I tried it, and was astonished by how well it worked. It didn't taste bad, either —after all, it's just sugar...
"[H]iccoughs in children are immediately stopped by giving them a lump of sugar saturated with table vinegar. The same remedy was tried on adults with similarly instantaneous success." —Ellsworth, Mrs. M.W., The Queen of the Household, Ellsworth & Brey: Detroit, 1899, p. 644.
Last time I had hiccups I remembered coming across this in one of my antique books. I tried it, and was astonished by how well it worked. It didn't taste bad, either —after all, it's just sugar...
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Kathy Davenport
1/31/2017 06:25:03 am
I never heard about the vinegar part but have tried a spoonful of sugar many times. As with trying to scare someone out of hiccups, trying to swallow that much sugar at once causes a "distraction."
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Kate
1/31/2017 07:17:54 am
I have tried this, without the vinegar, just the sugar, and it does work. So well I keep a sugar packet in my purse.
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Susan Hebert
3/4/2017 03:24:09 pm
I agree - sugar without the vinegar does work. I get hiccups so loud that last so long everyone around me gets annoyed! A spoonful of sugar is the only way to stop them!
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