Help me. This is my question. Do hiccups really stop when the person gets a sudden shock. Please try to let me know.

Yep! Here's another web site with a little more science and a few more 'cures'

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I find that if you take a spoonful of sugar and swallow it before it disolves, the graininess (such a word?) seems to cause the convulsions to stop. the person that put mo onto this said that sand will work just as well but I've never had them bad enough to try the sand. The sugar works though.

My father always said a sure fire cure was to stick your head in a bucket of water and take three deeps breaths, but he was just mean.

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Maynooth

Would that be a desert spoon of sand?

... or possibly swallowing sandpaper? It would have a cleaning effect all the way through

That's a rough way of curing them!

Mrs TW/Lynda51 cures them by bending right over and drinking out of the wrong (far) side of a glass of water.

That may well work but I would need a hip replacement if I tried that.

There was a similar question on AFT but due to the fact that one of my ancestors must have mated with a gold fish, I cannot recall the answer. What I do remember is that we always used to call them hiccoughs and there are numerous variations according to http://www.leewardlaw.com/hector.htm#anchortriv

Hiccups were called yex or yox (which also meant to sob) in the days of Old English. Later, these words were changed to hiquet, hicket, hickot, hickock, hitchcock, and hiccough. By the late 16th century, the accepted spelling and pronunciation was "hiccup."
Eryximachus, a 5th century BC doctor, recommended this cure for hiccups: " . . . hold your breath, and if this fails, gargle with a little water; and if the hiccough still continues, tickle your nose with something and sneeze, and if you sneeze once or twice, even the most violent hiccough is sure to go."
In the year AD 77, Pliny the Elder, a Roman naturalist, wrote: "When a horse-shoe becomes detached from the hoof . . if a person takes up and puts it by, it will act as a remedy for hiccup the moment he calls to mind the spot where he has placed it."
More up to date info is on the site

Drinking water in a glass covered by a kleenex works 99.9% of the time ......try it.

An also surefire way of getting rid of hiccups everytime. Take a slice of lemon, put a few drops of bitters on it and suck it (the lemon). This has never failed me.

I know that holding my breath works for me.

Had a French teacher once who would say to hold your breath for 10 minutes to cure them

Drinking out of the far side of a glass does the trick for me.

Problem is I often end up having to do it twice, because when people see me they find it so amusing they ask for a repeat performance.

Whoa, thanks all for such a lot of replies. Now whenever I get the hiccups, I'll try these remedies.
Thanks Again!!