How do you get hiccups?

Answer 1

Lots of ways. Eating or drinking too fast. For some it comes with nerves. Certian foods like carbonated beverages might do it.

It is your diaphragm spasming.

To get rid of them you could drink a glass of water and walk backwards for 10 seconds.

Answer 2

First of all you don't "get" hiccups like you would a cold.
When you hiccup, your diaphragm involuntarily contracts. (The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdomen. It plays an extremely important role in breathing.)

This contraction of the diaphragm then causes an immediate and brief closure of the vocal cords, which produces the characteristic sound of a hiccup. What actually causes the hiccup is difficult to say - in most instances, there is no obvious cause.

Attacks of the hiccups seem to be associated with a few different things: eating or drinking too fast; being nervous or excited; or having irritation in the stomach and/or throat.

In some extremely rare cases, the underlying cause of hiccups can be pleurisy (inflammation of the membrane lining of the lungs and chest cavity), pneumonia, certain disorders of the stomach or esophagus, pancreatitis, alcoholism, or hepatitis. Any one of these conditions can cause irritation of the diaphragm or of the phrenic nerves that supply the diaphragm - it's the irritation that causes the hiccups.

Still, the cause of most attacks of the hiccups remains a mystery.

Answer 3

When you hiccup, your diaphragm involuntarily contracts. (The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdomen. It plays an extremely important role in breathing.)

This contraction of the diaphragm then causes an immediate and brief closure of the vocal cords, which produces the characteristic sound of a hiccup. What actually causes the hiccup is difficult to say - in most instances, there is no obvious cause.

Attacks of the hiccups seem to be associated with a few different things: eating or drinking too fast; being nervous or excited; or having irritation in the stomach and/or throat.

In some extremely rare cases, the underlying cause of hiccups can be pleurisy (inflammation of the membrane lining of the lungs and chest cavity), pneumonia, certain disorders of the stomach or esophagus, pancreatitis, alcoholism, or hepatitis. Any one of these conditions can cause irritation of the diaphragm or of the phrenic nerves that supply the diaphragm - it's the irritation that causes the hiccups.

Still, the cause of most attacks of the hiccups remains a mystery.

***My best cure for hiccups is to hold my breath. :)

Answer 4

I've read numerous articles and material that said hiccups are a useless body function.

Answer 5

Why would you want to get hiccups on purpose?

Answer 6

It's a muscle spasm in your diaphram. To cure hiccups, breath slow and deep and even, in through your nose, out through your mouth, as if you were trying to meditate. Calms the spasm and works every single time. ;)

Answer 7

when u swallow air or drink a carbonated drink
the air is stored in ur stomach and needs to be burped or hiccuped out

Answer 8

hiccups are actually caused by your diaphragm spasming...kinda weird huh?

Answer 9

Go out to the country and visit a china shop.

Answer 10

Muscle spasm of the diaphragm.