Ive had the hiccups several times every day for about a week and they hurt! Why is this?
2007-03-17 17:00:34 · 16 answers · asked by kruzachick 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
it's common in growing young adults.
some people get hiccups if they eat too fast (or if the food they eat is too dry). It's an involuntary muscle contraction of smooth muscle of the diaphragm - it creates a vacuum to help along boluses.
2007-03-17 17:07:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi,
Hiccups are usually a reaction to your stomach and digestive system getting crazy. This happens when you eat too much, drink bubbly drinks like soda, or swallow too much air.
Some people get the hiccups for no reason at all. Other things that cause hiccups include skull fracture, epilepsy, tuberculosis and believe it or not, constipation , I know sounds crazy but is true sometimes.
These are some cures for the hiccups:
Remedies include holding your breath, breathing into a bag, sudden fright, or - get this - eating sugar, The sugar does work good if you dont mind some sweetness in your mouth for a little while.. Just drinking water, if done soon enough, might wash down a chunk of food in the throat that's pressing against a nerve.
Hope this information helps.
deb
2007-03-17 17:15:59 · answer #2 · answered by debbie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think is because u drink hot tea and some time it will make u hiccup. Or if u have big bit of food like bread or chicken it might bring u hiccup. I believe that some food stock inside the chest and it is hard to swallow and it will start to hiccup as well. I think is better if u see the doctor.
2007-03-17 17:10:05 · answer #3 · answered by historyman_of_sa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hiccup is an involuntary inspiratory spasm of the diaphragm and certain respiratory organs ending in a sudden closure of the glottis with the production of the characteristic sound. It may be due to abdominal, Thoracic, cerebral , toxic or functional causes or there may not be any demonstrable cause.
2007-03-18 03:27:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
popping of your diafram
if you talk too much without taking breaths then your diafram will pop
nothing permanant of course
also if you eat to fast
its an air thing
heres a good way to get rid of hiccups too
have some water by you
hjold you breath for 10 seconds
take a tiny sip
10 more seconds
another sip
should work
2007-03-17 17:03:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hiccups happens when you eat to fast because it will make a bubble lodge into your throat.Its not dangerous but annoying.You should drink water it helps some of the time.
2007-03-17 17:08:48 · answer #6 · answered by need2question 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
air spasms....rub the hole in throat in circles (heavens rushing point) the hiccups should go away quick.
U can also do this to a pet if your pet gets the hiccups.
2007-03-17 17:03:59 · answer #7 · answered by sunflare63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your diaphram expands as your chest expands, when those teo get out of synch, then this thing in your throat (way to make me seem like I have no clue what i'm talking about) snaps shut making the hiccup sound. Just sit and relax and try and get them working together again.
Or shout out "someone ask me where fish live!!!"
and when they do, respond "deep in the sea!!!"
I've heard that it works 100% of the time, i've even seen it work, although I dunno if thats 100% what the phrases are.
2007-03-17 17:08:05 · answer #8 · answered by adklsjfklsdj 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol eveyone's answers are wrong. The popping guy is the closest. Hiccups are muscle spasms of your diaphragm
2007-03-17 17:06:05 · answer #9 · answered by medicfreak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hiccup's are formed when there is a lack of oxygen leading to the brain i think or is that yawing i forget.
2007-03-17 17:04:22 · answer #10 · answered by JOhNe=mc² 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋