What cause hip-ups?why?how?

Question

What cause hip-ups?why?how?

Answer 1

never heard of a hip-up

Answer 2

It's meant to be when you've eaten to fast, because your swallowing massive gulps of air and it get trapped. :)

Answer 3

OH, BY THE WAY, THE GUY ABOVE ME CHANGED HIS ANSWER AND ADDED WIKIPEDIA INFO AFTER I DID. Thought you should know.

hiccups are known to be triggered by specific events, such as lack of water, eating too fast, being hungry for long, taking a cold drink while eating a hot meal, burping, eating very hot or spicy food, laughing vigorously, coughing, drinking alcoholic beverages in excess, crying out loud (sobbing causes air to enter the stomach), some smoking situations where abnormal inhalation can occur (in tobacco or other smoke like cannabis, perhaps triggered by precursors to coughing), electrolyte imbalance, talking too long, clearing the throat, by some of the stronger opiate painkillers such as Heroin, Morphine, and Oxycodone or from lack of vitamins. Hiccups may be caused by pressure to the phrenic nerve by other anatomical structures, or having the sensation that there is food in the esophagus, rarely by tumors and certain kidney disease. The American Cancer Society reports that 30% of chemotherapy patients suffer singultus as a side effect of treatment.

Answer 4

I think you Hic-up when air gets trapped in you chest, but i'm not sure.

Google it.

Answer 5

Eating too quickly without drinking anything usually causes hiccups.

Answer 6

A hic-cup is a spasm in your diaphram. Basically, your whole lower gastric system is contracting for a short breath, and then releasing. This is similar to squeezing a stress ball. They can be caused several ways, but most common are being startled, over eating/drinking, irritated gastric system, and sometimes are completely random spasms.

There are many many home remedies, but you didnt ask, so i didnt tell.

Good-hic-Luck

-Devin

Answer 7

when you have a spasm in your diaphragm.

Answer 8

I think u mean HIC-ups, not hip-ups. I dont know why they happen, but they happen to me when i eat too fast!

Answer 9

do you mean hiccups?

if you do...

A hiccup is the spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm that repeats several times per minute. In humans, the abrupt rush of air into the lungs causes the epiglottis to close, creating the "hic" sound.

Hiccups may be triggered by as lack of water, eating too fast, being hungry for long, taking a cold drink while eating a hot meal, burping, eating very hot or spicy food, laughing vigorously, coughing, drinking alcoholic beverages in excess, crying out loud (sobbing causes air to enter the stomach), some smoking situations where abnormal inhalation can occur (in tobacco or other smoke like cannabis, perhaps triggered by precursors to coughing), electrolyte imbalance, talking too long, clearing the throat, by some of the stronger opiate painkillers such as Heroin, Morphine, and Oxycodone or from lack of vitamins.

Answer 10

You mean hicups?

I never heard hip-ups.

Answer 11

you mean hiccups?? it is the spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm that repeats several times per minute. In humans, the abrupt rush of air into the lungs causes the epiglottis to close, creating the "hic"..

Answer 12

A hiccup is a contraction of your diaphragm, the muscular membrane in your chest that figures importantly in breathing. Inhaling contracts the diaphragm and exhaling relaxes it.

Hiccups are spasmodic, involuntary, and as useless as they are annoying. A post-Thanksgiving distended stomach can irritate the diaphragm and cause a fitful spell of hiccups. Exercise or stress can cause them as well. More often, though, the reflex has no apparent cause.

One hypothesis suggests that hiccups may be a remnant of a primitive sucking reflex. Whatever the ancient function, they are little more than a nuisance now. And everyone swears they've got the surefire cure, whether it's holding your breath, giving yourself a good scare, sucking on grains of sugar, drinking water upside down or even (one reputable journal reports) a gentle, modified Heimlich maneuver. Many of these actually work, by temporary halting the rhythm of respiration.