What is the hiccups?

[Navin]

Exactly what is hiccups? I just got them today and it dissapeared after i drank a glass of water. Is it related to burping?

What causes it?

[jnkdna]

i know hiccups is due to something related to the diaphragm.
holding ur breath also stops them. jumping, getting scared, how do they effect? i know they also stop it.

[Mjhavok]

The hiccups are a diaphramatic irritations. Check this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccups

[futulam]

Hiccup is normal, if you eat or drink to fast. By eating too fast (swallowing at a fast rate) can cause stomach upset (in worse situation). Just try to drink lots of water. Hot water especially help.

[atypical10]

Botany is the study of plants and other word for hiccups is singultus.

[chepay118]

This is a common condition characterized by the repeated involuntary spasmodic …

thanks,
chepay

[victor]

usually caused by different air pressure in diaphragm..

[VeenaandNivyah]

quote chepay118:

This is a common condition characterized by the repeated involuntary spasmodic …

wow… we all understood that… thanx a lot, man. we just feel enlightenend about hiccoughs. 😆
veenaandnivyah

[Evelyn]

I always get hiccups but nothing makes them go away can any of you explain why?

[chepay118]

Your welcome VeenaandNivyah!!1 😀

I experienced that also and tried some remedies to get rid of that.As far as my research goes.I applied "Hughes/Green Hiccups Cure".Try this one:

(1) Pour a TALL glass of water.

(2) Hold your breath… ***

(3) IMPORTANT…PINCH YOUR NOSE CLOSED.

(4) Slowly, take 10 – 20 swallows of the water…while holding your breath with your nose pinched closed.

(5) When you can’t stand it any more….you’ll know by that overwhelming drowning sensation — after a gasp, take a deep breath and relax.

This cures the hiccups 99 percent of the time – guaranteed! It’s a proven medical remedy! (A second treatment could be necessary for stubborn cases.)

*** For stubborn cases, try EXHALING COMPLETELY and then taking 10 – 20 swallows.

NOW: HERE’S WHY IT WORKS: Hiccups are caused by an uncontrollable spasm in the diaphragm, (the "breathing" muscle). Often, this spasm is triggered by irritable conditions in the smooth muscles of the stomach or the esophagus. The "Hughes/Green Hiccups Cure" forces an increase in the carbon dioxide levels in the diaphragm itself, as well as in the stomach and esophagus. By swallowing, you are making the muscles work — so they use up their available oxygen and replace it with carbon dioxide. By temporarily discontinuing to breath, you prohibit new oxygen from entering your body and thus create an anaerobic condition in the spasming diaphragm muscle. When the spasming diaphragm and stomach are deprived temporarily of oxygen and encounter the higher levels of carbon dioxide … you feel that scary drowning sensation! BUT this causes the spasming muscles to relax! The hiccups go away! Essentially, you are "tricking" your body into thinking that it’s drowning … and it decides to use it’s resources for something other than hiccuping. The rather "scary" drowning sensation caused by this method is NECESSARY for the method to work. If it’s not just a little bit difficult … it doesn’t work….

thanks,

😀 Chepay118

[Evelyn]

There is another cure your supposed to get a teaspoon put some sugar on the spoon then put vinegar on it and eat the sugar and vinegar together it tastes horrible but its supposed to work it doesn’t work on me any more but it used to. So anyone who has hiccups should try that.

[VeenaandNivyah]

quote chepay118:

Your welcome VeenaandNivyah!!1 😀

Hey i was only just joking…

[Cilla]

Sometimes, (very rarely), when hiccoughs are intractable, the person has to receive medical attention. In some cases, an injection of a prescribed drug is required.

It is also good to remember the old medical school aphorism, C3,4 and 5 keep the diaphragm alive!

[chepay118]

VeenaandNivyah wrote: Hey i was only just joking…

Whatever it is either a compliment or a joke…it doesn’t matter.Am true to what I post. 8)

chepay118 8)

[Evelyn]

quote Cilla:

It is also good to remember the old medical school aphorism, C3,4 and 5 keep the diaphragm alive!

what does that mean?

[Cilla]

Hi Evelyn,

Healthcare professionals have to learn , by rote if necessary, the distribution of the nervous supply within the human body.

The spinal cord is divided into anatomical sections, which are, in turn, numbered. The anatomical sections are referred to by their initial.

The cervical cord is protected by the cervical spine. C1 and C2 are its highest points, and intact functioning is crucial for life itself. C1 is right at the very top of the spinal cord, next to the brian stem. If an accident is severe enough, the cord can be snapped through, and the fractured boney prominence, (hitherto offering a protective function), can penetrate the medulla oblongata.

Thus, a healthcare professional should know how to assess and treat a possible boney fracture at the C1 and C2 level, because, if they do the wrong thing, (e.g. hyperextend the head), they could snap the cord.

They need to know about the innervation of the diaphragm in order to assess the breathing of a patient. If there is some kind of lesion in the spinal cord at the C3, C4 or C5 level, the functioning of this organ would be compromised.

[kiekyon]

If a person gets hiccups and wants to know what has set them off, there is a long list of medical or physiological disorders that are associated with hiccups and seem to cause them. The most common by far is distension or expansion of the stomach and movement of stomach acid into the esophagus. After that, a disease or irritation in the thorax could be to blame. Irritation of the phrenic nerve (the nerve to the diaphragm) or the diaphragm is often cited as a cause of hiccups, but this is only speculation about the exact mechanism. Hiccups can also arise from a variety of neurological lesions, many of them involving the brain stem, or some metabolic disorders (particularly renal failure). Medications, often ones that promote acid reflux into the esophagus, and a variety of other disorders have also been linked to hiccups.

Hiccups are seen in a wide variety of animals and are very common in the fetus. They have been recorded physiologically in animal studies and are easily recognized on ultrasounds of human babies. Hiccups appear before breathing movements as the fetus develops and are common in newborns but gradually disappear over the next few months.
These observations suggest that hiccup CPG may be left over from a previous stage in evolution. Searching through the animal kingdom for a recurring, rhythmic activity that resembles a hiccup turns up a few candidates. None of them looks exactly like a hiccup, but that is not really surprising given all the changes that have occurred over the eons. One candidate is the CPG for gasping, which is a sudden inspiration and can be rhythmic. In a recent paper, my colleagues and I argued that a better candidate is the CPG used by tadpoles for gill ventilation. The unique feature of hiccups is a big inspiratory effort while closing the glottis, which completely blocks air from being inspired. Halfway through its development a tadpole has both lungs that breathe air and gills for breathing water. It does not have a diaphragm and cannot suck air into its lungs and instead pushes fluids with its mouth. To breathe air, it fills its mouth cavity with air, then closes its nose, mouth and the passage to the gills and compresses the mouth cavity, forcing the air into its lungs. To breathe water, it fills its mouth with water and then closes the glottis and forces the water out through the gills. The positive pressure pump action of the mouth is synchronous with filling the lung or pushing water through the gills. The gill-breathing tadpole is thus inspiring while closing the glottis, the same action as hiccuping.

Of course, this hypothesis remains rather speculative. We do know, however, that the hiccup generator in mammals is located in the brain stem not far from where the separate gill CPG and lung CPG are found in frogs. In addition, the motion of the tongue in human hiccups is reminiscent of the tadpole compressing its mouth contents.

Evolutionary theory says that items from earlier stages are not likely to be preserved for long unless they continue to serve some function. The function of hiccups is again a matter for speculation. One possibility is that the CPG has been given the job of controlling suckling in infants, which uses primarily mouth muscles and ensures that milk does not get into the lungs. Another possibility is that the CPG has found a use for clearing gas out of an overfilled stomach. Contraction of the diaphragm makes negative pressure in the chest but positive pressure in the abdomen and thus tends to force stomach contents into the esophagus, which may set off backwards peristalsis and a burp. Closing the glottis keeps any liquids that come up from falling back into the lungs.

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