What are the causes of hiccups?

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Answer 1

I know that I get hiccups when I suck on something too hard........
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Answer 2

A hiccup or hiccough (generally pronounced "hiccup" independent of the spelling) is an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm; typically this repeats several times a minute. The sudden rush of air into the lungs causes the glottis to close, creating the charles osborne hiccups "hic" noise. A bout of hiccups generally resolves hiccups treatment by itself, although many home remedies are in circulation best cure for hiccups chronic hiccups to shorten the duration, and medication is occasionally necessary. By extension, the term "hiccup" is also used to describe a small and unrepeated aberration in an otherwise consistent pattern.



While many cases develop spontaneously, hiccups are known to develop often in specific situations, such as eating too quickly, taking a cold drink while eating a hot meal, eating very hot or spicy food, laughing vigorously or coughing, or drinking an excess of an alcoholic beverage. Hiccups may be caused by pressure to the phrenic nerve by other anatomical structures, or rarely by tumors.

Answer 3

Many conditions are associated with hiccups, but none has been shown to be the cause of hiccups.

* If you eat too fast, you can swallow air along with your food and end up with a case of the hiccups.

* Any other practices that might irritate the diaphragm such as eating too much (especially fatty foods) or drinking too much (drunk people hiccup) can make you prone to having hiccups.

* In these instances, your stomach, which sits underneath and adjacent to the diaphragm, is distended or stretched. Because they occur in relation to eating and drinking, hiccups are sometimes thought to be a reflex to protect you from choking.

Answer 4

When your breathing isnt at normal speed. To get rid of hiccups the best thing to do is just breathe deeply -thumbs up-

Answer 5

Things that happen suddenly can couse hiccups. Like someone that jumps from behind the door and scares you.

Answer 6

The phrenic nerve that excites the muscles of the diaphragm, for reasons unknown, lapses into uncontrollable spasms

Answer 7

I believe nervousness or anxiety can cuase hiccups

Answer 8

if you breath in too much it will make you hiccup, also if you drink to fast it will happen,

Answer 9

Its caused by spasms of the diaphram (the muscles that seperates your lungs from the guts and helps you breathe).

Answer 10

It is a bug with the programming of the brain. You get stuck in an infinte loop.