6. How to relieve after-dinner heartburn fast.
Well, you could just not eat a ton of food that’s going to give you heartburn, but we both know that’s not going to happen. Inside, the New York Times recommends lying on your left side —and only your left side — and heartburn will dissipate before you go to asleep.
7. Do the opposite of the thing you’ve always been told to do for a nosebleed.
Do not tilt your head back. Instead, the Harvard Medical School says to tilt your head forward just a bit while pinching a certain spot on your nose. Here’s how to find it: Start at the top and move down until you feel cartilage. That’s the spot. It holds the sides of your nose against the septum, and after five minutes, the bleeding should end.
8. CALM DOWN RIGHT THIS INSTANT!
If you’re feeling exceptionally nervous and breathing heavily, try this Mayo Clinic trick that looks ridiculous but works: Put your thumb in your mouth and close your lips around it. Now, let your cheeks puff up as you try to blow out the air that you can’t actually blow out. It slows down your heart rate and stops the hyperventilating.
9. Hah to heow a bunt tung.
Coffee that’s too hot = a scorched tongue. Swishing around some cold water should cool things down immediately.
10. An actual cure for [hic] hiccups!
Here’s [hic] how [hic] to do it: Inhale deeply, hold it for a few seconds, swallow, swallow again, and then exhale through your nose. It may take a few rounds, but it’s as close to a cure or hiccups as there is.
11. Die, earworm!
An earworm is a song that gets annoying stuck in your head. One annoying bit of repetition can be thwarted by another kind of repetition: chewing gum. The Harvard Medical School says It breaks up your brain repeating the song to itself.