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Hiccups
Hiccups are a harmless yet irksome condition characterized by a contraction of the diaphragm. Hiccups usually go away with simple home remedies, but chronic hiccups may require medical intervention.
398 Questions
How can dogs get rid of hiccups?
Make it exercise! Or go for a run, but other way to stop the hiccups is to give him/her lots of water!
How can you get your nine year old girls hiccups away?
Get her to drink water from a cup, with her head down so that the water has to hit the roof of her mouth first. It always works for our 8 year old who has hiccups regularly.
After eatiing meals you always get the hicups?
If you happen to eat to fast, a muscle under your diaphram pulls down, letting more air into your lungs. Theres a sort of flap in there that will snap shut if it thinks too much air is getting into your lungs.
What does it mean if you hiccup a lot?
if you have the hiccups it means that its not enough air getting to your brain.
Why do I have hiccups after eating?
Simple physics and biology...
When you eat something, it need to be digested... the secretion in your mouth begins to breakdown the food as you are chewing it. The stomach also churns out acids and other digesting chemicals...
once broken down, the nutrients are the absorbed by the blood in the small intestines... the more food you eat the more blood required to get the nutrients.
You feel cold because the blood is reduced from the skin area and diverted to your tummy... less blood means less energy means less heat...
After a while you'll feel all glowy and satisfied... after the blood's done its work and now it brings the nutrients to your muscles and you'll feel warmer... Cheers..
Can you sleep while you have the hiccups?
Yes you can, It's by eating or drinking too fast, or laughing after a big meal, or emotional excitement, the only ways to get rid of hiccups is by holding your breath of 10 seconds, and that's how you get rid of hiccups ASAP.
Do you get taller when you hiccup?
Yes they do when ever you heccup you bounce up and up and up and then you get even taller.
Why are the hiccups called hiccups?
Hiccups are caused by uncontrolled spasms in the diaphragm (the thin piece of tissue located at the base of the lungs that makes them expand and contract). The phrenic nerve (located in the neck) controls the diaphragm and causes these spasms. When the phrenic nerve triggers a spasm the diaphragm contracts violently, resulting in a sudden inhaling of air aka a hiccup. The only full proof method I've found to get rid of hiccups is the following:
Step 1: Inhale deeply
Step 2: Hold the breath
Step 3: Drink one glass of water while holding the breath
Step 4: After drinking the water exhale extremely slowly
Step 5: Should hiccups not go away repeat steps 1-4
Another way is:
Step 1: fill your mouth with water (don't swallow)
Step 2: try to touch your toes (Try)
Step 3: then swallow if it doesn't work try it again
A tumor or infection in your central nervous system or damage to your central nervous system as a result of trauma can disrupt your body's normal control of the hiccup reflex.
Which antipsychotic is also used for treating intractable hiccups?
Promethazine.
*to memorize: remember the letter "P" for "Promethazine", and "P" for "pruritis"
Is hiccuping normal to a newborn?
Hiccup is usually normal in newborn babies. == Hiccuping is VERY common in newborns and is not harmful. Sometimes gently rubbing the neck area from the chin to the sternum (up & down, not side to side or in circles) will relax the muscle that is causing the hiccup.
not sure is this isscientifically correct but you know
A hiccup is when you your intercostal muscles (the muscle in-between your ribs) have a spasm and it courses your diafram to move up and down which forces air out
I hope this has helped xx I am only 13 so sorry if it isn't very good xx but i tried xx
Can scaring somebody get rid of there hiccups?
Many believe it is just a myth that this helps but I've used it and it always made the person stop hiccuping. The scientific reason for this is that, during a scare, most people either scream or gasp sharply. Doing so is said to stretch the diaphragm (which is spasming causing the hiccup in the first place) and, it is believed, to allow trapped air out or back into the normal passage of breathing. (Not sure about that last part)
Whatever the case, I cure my friends hiccups this way. It helps them and...it's fun! XD
If you hiccup during pregnancy does your baby hiccup too?
Yes, babies begin hiccuping late in the first trimester or early in the second, although they are typically not big enough to be felt by the mother at this stage. Once the baby is further along in its development, a mother will be able to notice the hiccups, which feels like small rhythmic movements. Hiccups can also be seen via ultrasound.
In general, things that irritate the diaphragm cause hiccups. Examples include: (1) eating very quickly; (2) eating something that is hot in tandem with drinking a cold liquid such as water, milk, etc,: (3) sobbing or crying; (4) eating very spicy or hot (high temperature) food as well as extreme coughing and/or laughter.
Are hiccups a side effect of oxycodone?
No side effects per say but you'll feel the withdrawals if you don't stop taking it by reducing your dosage incrementally. Unless you like withdrawals.
Easiest way to reduce your level is to cut your pill into quarters or halves, then reduce it by 1/4 or 1/2 (depending on how much withdrawal symptoms you have afterward) each week or 2 weeks, and keep dropping it by the same amount until you can stop.
If you try and stop cold turkey you're in for a rough time - it's not recommended.
Is hiccups an early sign of pregnancy?
Possibly, but it's not a very reliable symptom. Many people get frequent hiccups occasionally and aren't pregnant. If you are later for your period, take a home test. If you don't want to wait that long, go see a doctor.
Hiccups are caused when you have contractions of the diaphragm. The diaphragm is what makes your lungs take in oxygen and expel it.
What over the counter medicine can be used for hiccups?
Hiccups are spasmodic rises of the diaphragm beneath the lungs, usually caused by nerve stimulus or digestive irregularities. They can usually be stopped by increasing the carbon dioxide content of the lungs (breathing in and out of a paper bag, for example). Drinking water or consuming certain foods may stop hiccups, when stomach irritation is the location of the cause.
Hiccup Cures
*If you notice ALL the answers regarding drinking, swallowing upside down, singing hanging from an antique willow bush at noon on Tuesday while sipping wine,...the thing they all have in common is the need to hold your breath while disguised as some other nonsense behavior. Somewhere beneath the diaphragm is a nerve called the vagus nerve that causes spasms in the diaphragm and causes hiccups. The cure is carbon dioxide. Enough repetitions of holding your breath builds up enough carbon dioxide and stops hiccups.
This is the most consistent method for getting rid of hiccups. This only works though if you catch it early though.
In severe cases, there is a surgical procedure where they clip the nerve that makes you hiccup.
Suggested Methods
- If you hold your breath and swallow three times you can get rid of your hiccups.
- Get a bucket of water. Stick your head into the bucket of water 3 times and pull it out .
- Eat a teaspoonful of sugar.
- Take a breath and hold for as long as you can. Repeat until they are gone (do this sitting down in case you get light-headed).
- Drink water from a cup upside down. Tip your head down, and drink from the opposite side of the cup.
- You just plug up your ears (like shrugging your shoulders or pressing that little flap in front of the ear hole) and drink water for about 5-10 seconds.
- Hold your breath, and go into a series of contortions for at least 20 seconds, then it stops.
- Stand on your head.
- Swallow 3 times with your mouth closed.
- Pinch your nose and close your mouth and try to release air without opening your mouth or letting go of your nose. (Caution : some air may be forced through your tear ducts.)
- Gulp down a glass of water.
- Eat a piece of dry bread slowly.
- Gargle water.
- Hold your breath and count backwards from 20.
- You need two people. Bill has hiccups Ben doesn't. Ben says to Bill, "I'll give you £5/$5 if you hiccup again and then Bill will not hiccup!
- Breathe in through your nose, counting to 3, then breath out through your mouth counting to 5 repeat and hiccups are gone!
- Swallow a tablespoon of peanut butter (for those not allergic), as it coats and suppresses the action of the vagus nerve and allows it to calm down. Other cures don't do that long enough for tough cases.
- Another way is to take in a BIG breath of air, then without letting it out, take a sip of water and swallow hard. If you feel the water going down your throat, the hiccups should be gone!
- Keep drinking something until the hiccups are gone.
- Drink out of the wrong side of a glass. To drink from the wrong side of the glass, put water in a glass (not too full) and hold it under your chin so that you can put your lips on the opposite side of the glass rim from usual and slowly bend forward letting the water go into your mouth and sip several swallows, repeat until the hiccups are gone.
- Another way is to fill a glass of water up all the way, Take a butter knife, put it in the glass with the water, and drink the water while looking up at the knife.
- Hold your breath while drinking a glass of water, it works very well.
- This sounds strange but it really works. Keep something really sour, such as; "Sweet Tarts, Sour Balls, Jolly Ranchers (chewy), or Ice Breakers Sours" around. Not a bad cure at all. Pucker up!
- Stand on your head against a wall counting from 100 to 1. It will always get rid of them, but it takes time!
- It takes a little bit of practice, but plug both your ears and nose at the same time, while taking as long a drink of any liquid (preferable not carbonated) through a straw.
- Drink a cup of sugar-salt-water. Mix 2 cups of water and a teaspoon or sugar and add a pinch of salt
- Tilt your head back, plug your nose, roll your eyes 7-10 times and say "vavavavava". Repeat steps once or twice.
- Get someone else to help you do this. Make them say, "Look me in the eyes and let me hear you hiccup." You will stare and stare but you won't hiccup again. IT REALLY WORKS! (Mental suggestion cures at least 20% of all cases.)
- Open your mouth real wide and the hiccups won't come out.
- Fill a glass of water. Cross your arms over and put your index fingers in your ears (right index finger in left ear and left index finger in right ear). Get someone to feed you the water, and drink the entire glass without stopping.
- Fill a glass with some warm water and put a little bit of water in your mouth, and count "1,2,3". Swallow it,and then repeat, but count "4,5,6" (so basically you count up) all the way up to 21. It works all the time. (It cures 90-95% of all hiccups)
- Depending on how much your mouth can handle (with puffing your cheeks out) fill a glass or bottle with water and pour as much as you can have in your mouth into your mouth, and swallow.
Why do you hiccup when you eat?
You're probably talking about choking. Choking appears when an object goes down the wrong tube. You see, your esophagus and bronchular tube cross. Normally, when you're eating, two flaps cover up and seal the bronchular tube from the esophagus so the food goes down only one tube. But, when you're choking, you swallow too fast for your brain to react and close up the bronchular tube, so the food leaks in and you start choking to get it out. Windpipe is another name for your bronchular tube. If it isn't what's happening in what I just described, you probably have an allergy to some foods and you have an allergic reaction to them, which may be choking, getting a rash, or fainting.
Answer
You hiccup because your diaphram spazzez.There is no proven evidence that hiccups are caused by a lack of carbon dioxide in the blood. At this moment in time, no actual cause is known for the cause of hiccups.Please see the "Related Links" section of this answer for more information on hiccups and why they could be caused.
Its because you swallow air and the nerves, senses, and muscles want to push it out. So they PUSH on the sides of your stomach and the air comes back up your throat./ Therefore this makes a funny sound when te air is travelling up your throat and that funny noise is a hiccup. This is natural and if you hiccup it doesn't stop for a while it does NOT mean you are sick or ill. Do not consider this as an illnes.
most definately!! I am a sports Guy a Golfer, having played for 40 yrs I experienced left shoulder upper arm pain and lower back pain affecting lower right shin going numb. Nerve problem diagnosed in lumber back putting on the pressure. Driving a car for 1 hr...had to get out..it was murder.
Having received consultation,
My specialist gave me a Cortisone x 2 in the shouder (5 days apart) and on the second visit a shot for the lower back (for the leg and back problem).
Result was I could not sleep..woke up before 5am...then after a tea and toast started with severe hiccups that lasted till the early hrs of the next day 24 hrs aprox.Drank water, no relief....belched...as often as I could..it hurt..but seemed to clear. I did have an odd pause but only 20 mins or so...before hiccups started again. Then i started coughing ner the end of the 24 hr period and everything started to subside.Thank goodness. And now I have 4 hrs of peace.Heaven. Let,s hope it,s all through.
Hope this is helpfull to any sufferers out there.
Don
Why hiccups or choking happens while eating or laughing?
Hiccups or choking happens while eating or laughing due to various reasons. Mainly, this is triggered by the abrupt expansion of the stomach as a result of gulping air.
