Rectal Massage May Help Cure Hiccups

At the 16th annual Ig Nobel Awards, this years award in medicine goes to a doctor who went the extra mile to help a patient out with a severe case of the hiccups.

Source, other Ig Nobel awards given.

No water in Chattanooga?

It's all at the Aquarium.

Ha! Yeah, I'd imagine that would do it.

I find the best cure is accusing the person of faking the hiccups. Usually they protest but when called upon to produce the hiccup as proof, they are suddenly cured.

When we are in public and I have the hiccups my husband likes to announce that I have them to the people around us.

"Hey, everyone, look, she's got the hiccups. C'mon baby, show 'em your hiccups. You can do it! Give a good one!"

The embarassment usually takes care of them.

Although I kinda like this new idea, too.

Okay, here's my question: if you were a doctor, and a patient came to you complaining of hiccups, exactly why would it occur to you to stick a finger up their butt?

I've been preaching this for years.