How do hic-ups happen?!


Question: How do hic-ups happen.?
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your diaphragm (dye-uh-fram) is the muscle that controls the contraction and inflation of your lungs, it is the muscle you move to breathe. when you get the hiccups, the diaphragm is spasming, and causing you to suck in air at rapid intervals, and involuntarily!

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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.

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.
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Generally, your body follows set patterns. You hiccup when one of these patterns - specifically breathing - is set off course. The hiccup is the result of your respiratory system attempting to right itself. The best way I can think of explaining it is by comparing it to staying on-step with the person next to you. If you find yourself off-step, you'll probably make a little hop so that you come down on the on-step foot. Your lungs do the same thing, and the "little hop" is a hiccup.

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Ok, i'm only in 7th grade. You may be amazed by what I know:


Hiccups happen when the lungs and the diaphragm(the thing that supports the lungs) are not going at the same rate. The diaphragm is a muscle. The lungs trigger a wierd noise we call hiccups to alarm you about it. Its something that can not be cured. HOPE I HELPED!!Health Question & Answer

its when you swallow too much air and in your stomach there are other things with it at the same time so the hic ups are the bubbles of air that have no other place but to go up and obviously that means the bubbles come out of your mouth.. it hard to explain.. try asking a doctor...Health Question & Answer

theyr caused by restriction of breathing, or so i believe, so its where your trachea is iether tightened slightly in one place or something lyk food staying on the outside of your throat too long... sth lyk thatHealth Question & Answer

lung spasms... thats what someone told me...

and then someone told me your body does it becuased it doesn't get enough oxygen...

but i believe the first one :)Health Question & Answer

hic-ups means you ate to much and or your growing! LOL thats what I was always told.Health Question & Answer

Your diaphram gets in a weird position.Health Question & Answer

im guessing when your throat and your vocal chords dry up.?.?.? or is that when your voice squeaks.?.?Health Question & Answer

to much air intake into the diaphram.Health Question & Answer

I believe it's when you've got too much air in your stomach. Health Question & Answer

Im Not Sure But Thats A good Question I would Like To Know The Answer...=)Health Question & Answer

You swallow air.Health Question & Answer

isnt it when you swallowed to much air.Health Question & Answer

For me, it's when I drink something too fast.Health Question & Answer



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