Inspiring eighth grader Mallory Kievman from Connecticut has invented a promising cure for hiccups.
This isn’t your average science fair project, Kievman with the assistance of her pops has won “prizes for innovation and patentability (the pops are patent-pending) at the Connecticut Invention Convention competition for young entrepreneurs. And the University of Connecticut’s Innovation Accelerator is sending over some MBA students to help her out this summer,” according to New York Times.
What started it all was simply a nasty bout of hiccups, after testing a 100 kitchen sink remedies like drinking saltwater, sipping water out of an upside-down cup, eating spoonfuls of sugar, slurping pickle juice. The result is a combination of three of the best: sugar, apple cider vinegar, and lollipops.
As for the taste, she is still “tweaking” it but these ingredients “trigger a set of nerves in your throat and mouth that are responsible for the hiccup reflex arc… It basically over-stimulates those nerves and cancels out the message to hiccup.”
You may recall this young entrepreneur when she rang the NYSE bell at the end of January.
Expect to see hiccupops on drug store shelves in 2013 or something your nurse passes out — especially if you are on chemotherapy, dialysis or epilepsy drugs as hiccups is a common side effect.
Until 2013 you might want to try some hiccup curing techiniques per Discovery Fit & Health.