In Hong Kong is it considered a complement to burp all the time? What does it mean?
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NO\n\nBurping is rude and should be avoided in Hong Kong.
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We hiccup because our diaphragm is irittated, it contracts uncontrollably. This can happen when you eat too fast. The contraction, or twitching, causes the back of the throat to snap shut which is what makes the sound of hiccup...
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I am a dietetics and med student. Please take this as an opinion only and not as medical adivice as I am not an RD or MD yet. The excessive burping could be from acid reflux. When your body cannot digest something properly, in order to expell it you will burp or have flatulence. Ask your doctor to refer you a cardiologist. Where as a basic internal medicine MD knows about the body, s/he is not an expert on every organ. A cardiologist is. They continue their education for about 10-12 years where as an MD only does 8 years. A cardiologist will be able to better examine your heart and give the proper tests needed. Judging by the symptoms you gave, I don't think they are co-related. The numbness or tingling in your hands is a key sign of poor circulation. Temple pain could be tension or stress induced or there could be fluid behind your ear drum giving you the strained vision. Again, the only sure way to tell is to go to a cardiologist. Hope this helps!
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Found an interesting article on this...\nYawning is a unique breathing act, which is different from the usual practice of breathing. During yawning, the mouth involuntarily opens due to the spasm of mastoid muscles. These spasms, without your permission, force you to take a deep breath. It also involves many other muscles of your body, such as abdominal muscles. Lung ventilation increases, sending oxygen to the brain. Extra blood is pushed from the liver and spleen to the brain stem. During yawning, intellectual activity stops and for a moment we cannot think. We usually start yawning when we are very tired, before sleep, when we are too excited, or extremely serious. \nThere is a yawn center in our brain that makes this act a reflex like coughing or swallowing. The yawning reflex is very contagious, forcing people to imitate it. This phenomenon even has a fancy name: alolomimea. Yawning can be easily conditioned to become a bad habit. If you fight the urge to yawn, it will return in a similar situation. Yawning is what your body develops to get a “time out” to recharge for a brief moment. It is a signal that we are running out of gas, it is a signal to rest. \nThis is a great compensatory mechanism, without which we would drop into sleep suddenly without warning, as in patients with narcolepsy.
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Lol, cough after everytime he burps. Maybe he'll get a clue.
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I think he is talking about the technique of expelling air from your lungs to generate more force, often used in martial arts during a kick or punch.  A shout during the bowling action is much like a grunt and is acceptable.  It may be used to sledge against you.  Since it is repetitive and predictable it should not upset a batsman.  If you do it only occassionally or you do it late then it may be considered poor sportsmanship.  \n\nYou've got to ask whether you really need to do it since most of the great bowlers get by without shouting.  Bowling is not force but technique and you can expell air silently.
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no burping is jsut gastric gas and even if there was gas from the drug the dosage would be too small.
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I have no problem with it. To be honest I've always thought it was a little silly offering someone blessings for sneezing but expecting them to excuse themselves after burping or farting.
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Most people who come from asia live in a very polluted environment. Maybe its the smell of factories and dead fish mixed with his fart that you smell?\n\nThe fart of the white man is usually from burgers and beans and meaty objects. Some people get their farts from vegatables. Our food is fresh, maybe asian people food is polluted?
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Classic epigram: \n\n"No one cares about your indigestion.\n'How are you?' is a greeting, not a question."
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What you are feeling is your gastrointestinal tract moving.\n\nYour GI tract does what is called parstolic movement.  this is how the digested food moves along to the exit...\n\nWhen your Gi tract is very active you will hear your belly rumble gurgle and many other weird sounds like you had an alien baby in there...\nBUT don't worry that is normal to hear your belly rumble, it would not be normal to have no sound at all.\nThat would mean things have stopped moving and BOY WOULD YOU KNOW IT !!!  You would not be able to go #2 and that would really make you cranky...
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the #1 thing that can make you burp is a really big bottle of soda that has caffeine in it.  the caffeine free wont do it very well.
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well hiccups happen when u swallow air and then u eat too \nfast. so its not bad but in some casesof the hiccups can last for days or weeks, but this is very unusual, and it's usually a sign of another medical problem.
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When you hiccup, your diaphragm involuntarily contracts. (The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdomen. It plays an extremely important role in breathing.) This contraction of the diaphragm then causes an immediate and brief closure of the vocal cords, which produces the characteristic sound of a hiccup. \nWhat actually causes the hiccup is difficult to say -- in most instances, there is no obvious cause. Attacks of the hiccups seem to be associated with a few different things: eating or drinking too fast; being nervous or excited; and, having irritation in the stomach and/or throat. In some extremely rare cases, the underlying cause of hiccups can be pleurisy (inflammation of the membrane lining of the lungs and chest cavity), pneumonia, certain disorders of the stomach or esophagus, pancreatitis, alcoholism, and hepatitis. Any one of these conditions can cause irritation of the diaphragm or of the phrenic nerves that supply the diaphragm -- it's the irritation that causes the hiccups.
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I'm not a guy but why would anyone want to be around someone who is constantly farting or burping?  Is it possible that your friend just wants to be one of the boys?
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You do an abdominal thrust which goes in and up at the same time.  The thrust needs to be quick and hard to try to force air out of the lungs hard enough to expel the foreign material.
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People in Asia use the word "fat" ALL the time. They use it describe themselves and most everyone around them and they do so unapologetically, with gusto, at great volume. When someone actually does have a weight problem (as many do here, after rise of Mcdonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut) they then move onto to name-calling, the most popular being "Fatty". Even teachers in the schools refer to their students with such names, directly to them, and with smug smirks of amusement. Doctors and nurses use the word "Fatty" when referring to their patients, and do so in their presence. It's simply part of the culture.\n\nAnd, no, I'm not exaggerating. (I didn't even mention the finger-pointing and all-out laughing, did I?)\n\nHowever, as I am from America, I would choose to use words like "plump" or "heavy". Once in awhile, however, after living here for so long, and to my own utter amazement, I find myself saying, "You know her? That fat girl?" or something similar. I hope I can snap out of this new habit quickly.