Why is it that if I hold my breath within the first two hiccups they go away?

Question

If I realise early on, and I hold my breath in time, if i have hiccups they go away, however if i dont catch them in time im stuck with the hiccups for ages! Im drunk and just in from clubbing - this is the most important question on my mind at the moment as I have the hiccups! Gorrrrrr.

Answer 1

hiccups are caused by inhaling too much air, and your glottis(?) being out of synch - I remember that that's true.
As a result, the cure that I find works is to expel the excess air, with a little burp or two. taking a few sucks of air in, in quick succession, and not breathing out can often force out a burp if you're having trouble getting one to come out.

Perhaps that accounts for them sometimes going away if you quickly hold your breath - you're using up the excess air that i would normally expell with a burpy.

p.s. getting someone to scare you never seems to work - it is merely embarrassing, especially if you're walking down the street and have someone with you who seems to insist that screaming in yer lughole periodically is going to rid you of your hics. (note to my beau!)

as a final tip, you must stand/sit still and try to relax your body, or no cure will work!

Answer 2

Hiccups are caused by things like eating too fast, or alcohol etc. The valve at the end of your Oeasophagus, stays open for longer than it should, allowing air into your stomach, the Diaphragm contracts involuntarily, pulling the valve open allowing a small amount of the air to escape, thus causing what are known as hiccups.

To get rid of them, take a deep breath, and hold it for as long as you can for the hiccups to go. The reason for hiccups is that your diaphragm is relaxed and is flexible. By taking a deep breath and holding it, you are making your diaphragm taught and rigid, so stopping the normal flexibility, thus hopefully ending the hiccups.

Answer 3

Lol, hiccups happen because the diaphragm is irritated by something (a large meal, excitement, drinking excessive amounts of alcohol!) This causes it to spasm occasionally.

If you hold your breath, the diaphragm is no longer moving and so no longer being irritated, and so the hiccups tend to go away.

Also, rubbing your earlobe stops hiccups, don't know why, it just does!

Answer 4

it quite is bodily impossible to make your self pass out in simple terms by preserving your breath. magnificent your self may be a various tale, yet no longer preserving your breath. the only awkward social gathering i will think of of that for the time of touch hiccups became in eleventh grade; we've been meant to study a narrative by ourselves, and that i became questioning of a few thing humorous (yet unrelated to classification) and attempting to no longer chuckle. at last I enable loose a extraordinary hybrid of hiccuping/coughing/giggling/burping/i do no longer comprehend what else. That became awkward.

Answer 5

hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm by holding your breath you bring the diaphragm under control, in fact most hiccup remedies involve holding your breath

Answer 6

i take 3 gulps of water in succession without breathing and the hiccups are gone.

Answer 7

because hiccups are nothing but involuntay spasms in your stomach and holding your breath will make them go away most of the time.

Answer 8

There is only one real way to guarantee your hiccups will go. Wait for it:
Digital rectal massage.
ie fingers up the bum.
no joke, check the reference.

Answer 9

hiccups are your glottis closing out of sink with your breathing. if you can stop your breath early enough to reset the synchronisity of your breathing and this membane in your throat you stop having the hiccups

Answer 10

Hiccups happen because you have inhaled too much air and it has caused your diaphram to contract. At some point, you inhaled air more slowly and the hiccups stopped.