How do you get rid of hiccups?

When my son has hiccups, he gets hiccups and nothing conventional will do. Well the other day in the long battle of our illnesses around here he got the hiccups, not just once, twice, or three times but five times that day. We tried holding our breath, gulps of water, and sugar (believe it or not a teaspoon of sugar does it for him most of the time) and even tried a cookie!. However he kept getting them and they kept being more severe, so in a desperate attempt to get rid of them, I told him to stand on his head on the couch. Truly I came in to find him head down on the pillow, hands held high, and trying to hold his breath. Did it work, NO! Well I finally went on the WWW and found that if you inhale and hold your breath and without letting that go and swallow, inhale again and holding your breath and swallow and keep doing that until you just can't take it anymore and then you let it all out. That seems to work for him. So next time you get hiccups, try something fun!