Can you die from hicups?
115282
Hiccups may be dangerous, but that's rare. Weight loss, poor wound healing and even death occasionally have been attributed to intractable hiccups.
288317
My boss who's a nurse/midwife told me this trick and it never failed (I get hicups quite often)\nYou have to bend down while standing up, so your head is "facing" your legs/knees. Take a glass of cold water and drink couple sips, but make sure that you're drinking "upside-down", from the edge of the glass that you normally wouldn't drink from, but the opposite one. While you're swollowing the water, you have to do it while your head is upside down, it's very hard and you may feel like the water is going down your nose. It's a hard "procedure" but NEVER fails.
1159540
First Sugar-Free or Not there are acids in all types of foods and none are good for your enamel, the outer covering of your tooth, and could cause decay. Second you breathe in and out more deeply when you are sleeping and the chances that you could choke are even greater than when you are awake, and I know I have come close to choking when I was awake. Please don't do this anymore for your own safety.
955367
Unless you remove the duct tape or provide air holes, yes they will die. Even if you do provide air holes and they are not large enough, they can die. I do not know what you are planning, a practical joke, or a hazing or whatever, but doing this can be considered and act of attempted murder. It is not funny in any case.
244805
If you cough, sneeze, and fart all at the same time, will you die?
911454
yeah dont do it.. you can get tongue cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer, your teeth can fall out.. its not healthy or attractive
876386
No, otherwise everyone would be dead!  God bless you is just a pleasantry.  If your heart stopped, even briefly, it would cause an arrhythmia and you would at the very least have severe chest pain or become unconscious every time you sneezed.
318851
You probably won't die.  You'll most likely get dehydrated.
922933
Assuming that the person is otherwise healthy (no medical problems, no kidney problems, no ADH regulation problems, etc):\n\nWell, most people can pee about 15 liters or urine in a day.  This is around 4 gallons!\n\nSo, it would HAVE to be much more than this to cause death by hyponatremia!\n\nIF you drank much more over a VERY short period of time (several gallons in an hour), you would probably vomit some back up, too!\n\nFurthermore, as you started to become hyponatremic, you would become nauseated, feel realy sick, get a bad headache, become confused, and lethargic...\n\nThis, in a sense, would save most people's lives...and prevent death.  In other words, they would get too sick to continue to drink enough to die....even in fraternity hazing.\n\nHowever, if someone was forced to drink enough water over a short enough period of time, they could theoretically drink enough to pass out, have seizures, go into a coma...and yes, even die.\n\nIt is hard (at least for me) to even put a rough guess at this number, as I believe every person would be quite a bit different...and the range of amount to death would likely be VERY variable, depending on weight of the person, etc.  Furthermore, it would depend more on the RATE of water consumption than the actual AMOUNT.\n\nSome would NOT be able to drink enough water to kill themselves.  They would feel so awful, they would stop.\n\nMost people that become hyponatremic from drinking "too much" water either have a physical disease (i.e. impaired ADH regulation, etc) and/or they have a psychiatric disease (i.e. pyshogenic polydypsia).\n\nIn psychiatric disease of drinking too much water, it is usually a chronic thing...not an acute thing (i.e. not a "in one sitting" situation).\n\nHowever, if there were an underlying psychological or physiological problem to begin with, then the hazing thing could kill such a person.\n-\n\nFurthermore, most otherwise healthy people would not die from their "water drinking hazing" hyponatremia...they would pass out, maybe have a seizure, go into a coma.  Then, 911 would be called, they'd be taken to the hospital...given medical care...and gradually come out of it with appropriate treatment.\n\nSo, I know you wanted an exact number...but I don't think this can be answered.\n\nA better fraternity haze is to have people drink a gallon of whole milk in 30 minutes!\n\nNO one can hold down a gallon of milk, if they drink it within 30 minutes....and projectile milk vomiting is quite a sight.
600891
Oh yes it can! There are many documented cases of patients who have had mild to moderate untreated dental infections that lead to serious, and even fatal heart complications.  Our mouths are very dirty places and also very vascular and provide great access for bacteria into the blood stream.  However, cause of death listed as Cardiopulmonary, does not mean that there was heart damage, it just means that the heart and lungs failed, causing death.  The abcessed tooth may be unrelated.
545922
You can come close to death or die, if not treated immediately.\n\nNeck Swelling is a very serious development, depending on severity.  You should call your dentist immediately.  The time you have to get this treated gets exponetially smaller the longer you wait.  What I mean by that is if you wait to long you may not be standing and can pass out from systemic infection. \n\nCall your Oral surgeon ASAP.\nConsider going to the emergency room.
316625
It depends on the cause of death.  If it is something to so with the lungs, then yes, but if it a stroke or a fall, then maybe not.\n\nThat is a bit of a weird question though...why are you wondering that?
790404
Not necessarily. Drinking until you are unconscious can lead to death. When the stomach is pumped, not all the alcohol is removed from the bloodstream, so it can still be in quite lethal levels even if the stomach is emptied.\n\nOther factors such as height, weight, sex, age and many other things also factor in.
1011534
you would probably puke or pass out
317328
(m)\n\nHiccups Causes\n\nMany conditions are associated with hiccups, but none has been shown to be the cause of hiccups. \n\nIf you eat too fast, you can swallow air along with your food and end up with a case of the hiccups.\nAny 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.\nIn these instances, your stomach, which sits on top of 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.
74650
That is a good question.  I'm sure people have been asking that question \nsince before recorded history.  And you know what? We still don't know.  \nThat is, no one knows for sure.  After reviewing 192 scientific \nreferences, one researcher concluded, "The purpose of the hiccup is \nunknown".  \nThere is no question that a hiccup is a contraction of the diaphragm (the \nmuscle that controls breathing between the lungs and the abdominal area).  \nAnd since the diaphragm is controlled by the phernic nerve, it is most \nassuredly involved as well.  In fact, if you cut the phrenic nerve, there \nare no more hiccups.  But what does that have to do with overeating, or \ndrinking too much alcohol, or eating too fast (some things thought to \nsometimes cause hiccups)?  In other words the real question is, "why do we \nhiccup?"  What, in the course of our evolution, made it possible for those \nwho hiccup well (whatever that is) to survive over those who didn't \nhiccup?  It is very possible that the hiccup is a remnant from a very \ndistant evolutionary past that has no use anymore and may not even be the \nsame thing it once was.  Or, it may server some yet unidentified purpose.
39516
Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphram.  Hold your breath and while doing so, take your middle knuckle and hold it against your windpipe.  This keeps any air from getting through.  It has always worked for me.  It's probably the same principle as people telling you to try and drink water while you are holding your breath, however I think it's more effective than drinking water, because you aren't allowing any air to get in.