how come you get the hiccups?

Answer 1

Hiccups can be described as brief, irritable spasms of your diaphragm that can occur for a few seconds or minutes.
Hiccups are sudden, involuntary contractions of the diaphragm muscle. As the muscle contracts repeatedly, the opening between your vocal cords snaps shut to check the inflow of air and makes the hiccup sound. Irritation of the nerves that extend from the neck to the chest can cause hiccups.
Although associated with a variety of ailments (some can be serious such as pneumonia or when harmful substances build up in the blood for example from kidney failure), hiccups are not serious and have no clear reason for occurring.

Hiccups Causes
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 2

Your muscles are always contracting, and dialating. If you do something like eat too quickly, drink not enough water, typical random things, you diaphragm goes on a muscle spasm, which is basically where it contracts and dialates very fast, and in major amounts. You get the hiccup, because it pushes air through your lungs which then come up through your throat and produce a small choking sound.

Answer 3

when i was reading a few months back I heard theorys of why you can get hiccups but no real explantions things like those are kinda odd about the human body...

Answer 4

i think most people get the hiccups when they have eaten/drank too fast, stomach irritation, or are nervous.

Answer 5

I agree with the person above. The nerve that ennervates the diaphragm is called the phrenic nerve.

Answer 6

little air bubble trapped in ur body and ur diaphram flexes to force i out. it can also be nuerological if it never stops like that girl who had it for like 9 months