13-year-old develops cure for hiccups | Albuquerque Express

13-year-old develops cure for hiccups

Albuquerque Express (ANI) Monday 7th May, 2012

A 13-year-old American girl has invented an innovative way of curing pesky hiccups with lollipops.

To silence her stubborn hiccups during the summer of 2010, Mallory Kievman attempted at swallowing saltwater, making herself gag, eating a spoonful of sugar, sipping pickle juice and drinking a glass of water upside-down.

Almost two years and 100 attempted folk remedies later, the 13-year-old is preparing to lead a team of M.B.A. students from the University of Connecticut in building a company that can bring her invention - Hiccupops, or hiccup-stopping lollipops - to market this summer.

"It's very rare, when you're evaluating businesses, that you can envision a company or product being around 100 years from now," New York Times quoted Danny Briere, a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Startup Connecticut, which nurtures new companies, including Hiccupops, and is a regional affiliate of the Startup America Partnership, as saying.

"Hiccupops is one of those things. It solves a very simple, basic need."

Mallory met Briere last spring at the Connecticut Invention Convention, an annual competition for kids.

"I went there, and I knew it would either be a hit or a miss project," she said.

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