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13-Year-Old Inventor Creates Hiccup-Curing Lollipop
There are tons of wives’ tales, myths and techniques for getting rid of hiccups and if you really want to know how to get rid of them, you just have to understand what they are. Turns out it’s not caused by angels punching you in the throat for thinking about your neighbor in a pizza-boy porn fantasy as you may have suspected. It’s the contraction of the diaphragm and throat and it may be much simpler to cure than you’d think.
Kievman developed the pops over the past two years after trying more than 100 folk remedies, from eating sugar to drinking a glass of water while upside-down. She finally settled on apple cider vinegar and sugar, the former being something she says can overstimulate nerves in your throat involved in hiccuping reflex and cease the uncomfortable reflex.
