how do hiccups happen?

Answer 1

Hiccups are caused when your diaphragm, which pulls air into your lungs and helps push it out, gets irritated and starts to jerk. It can be caused by nervousness, excitement, or eating too quickly, or just happen randomly.

Answer 2

How Do Hiccups Happen

Answer 3

You breathe through your lungs but the diaphragm helps with that immensely, try taking shallow breaths and you'll see. Basically, a hiccup occurs when the diaphragm operates spontaneously without your conscious control, pulling in air in gulps. When this happens, a hiccup occurs.

Hiccups are by nature naturally occurring and pose no threat to life.

Answer 4

Hiccups happen when the diaphragm (the main muscle used in breathing) suddenly contracts between normal breaths. Hiccups can be caused by irritation of the nerve that controls the diaphragm, certain drugs, problems in the brain, problems in the esophagus (the swallowing tube that goes from the throat to the stomach), pressure on the stomach, and other conditions. Hiccups that last a long time can be serious. They can interfere with eating, sleeping, and breathing, and lead to exhaustion.

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Answer 5

A hiccup or hiccough (normally pronounced "HICK-up" regardless of 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 "hic" listen (help·info) noise. A bout of hiccups generally resolves itself without intervention, although many home remedies are in circulation that claim 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. The medical term is singultus.

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, drinking an alcoholic beverage to excess, or electrolyte imbalance. Hiccups may be caused by pressure to the phrenic nerve by other anatomical structures, or rarely by tumors and certain kidney disease. It is reported that 30% of chemotherapy patients suffer singultus as a side effect of treatment.

Answer 6

Your diaphragm is a muscle in your stomach that helps your lungs pull in air. When you have the hiccups, your diaphragm is out of sync with the rest of your body. When you hiccup, it is your diaphragm trying to help you breath, but since you aren't pulling in air at that point, it has a weird muscle spasm type effect.

Answer 7

Hiccups are a convulsive reaction in the diaphram.

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a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.

Sometimes people have to go to the hospital for treatment to get rid of them, believe it or not!

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Answer 9

Dont know exactly but I do know that even inutero babys/fetus's can and do get hicups so it might not have any thing at all to do with air since the babys are in a liquid enviroment

Answer 10

when your prhenic nerv is mull functioning or irritated it will send a commend to your diahpragm to contract simultaneously making you hiccups