What is the reason for continuous hiccups?
397075
I agree that spasms in the diaphragm are to blame but I have found an unbeatable cure (at least for me)...Peanut Butter! As soon as it touches my tongue the hiccoughs are gone!
394595
Hiccups are caused by a spasm of the diaphram. To cure it, you need to "reset" the natural rhythm. The way to do this is :-\n\n(1) Pour a TALL glass of water.\n\n(2) Hold your breath...\n\n(3) IMPORTANT...PINCH YOUR NOSE CLOSED.\n\n(4) Slowly, take 10 - 20 swallows of the water...while holding your breath with your nose pinched closed.\n\n(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.
1153821
If you go outside and find a small smooth pebble.  Then you place that pebble underneath a log, your hiccups will be cured.
409583
No hiccups are not contagious but it might be possible to control them.  If one can control the hindbrain then it might be possible to contol ones hiccups...similar to people who can cause their eyes to shake rapidly.  \n\nSometimes if you get the hiccups then physcially try to hiccup again you won't hiccup (my friend does that to his daughter by telling her he'll give her a dollar if she would do it again, she usually can't)
535353
Oh sure, it happens all the time. I don't know why you've only heard of ONE person dying. It happens everyday. This is what happens. When you get the hiccups, your body has been tricked into thinking that it can't get air. Why does this happen you ask? It's because when you eat beef that was grown with steroids it creates a chemical that reactes with a chemical in your diaphragm and it makes your body think that it is suffocating. Well here's the deal with that. Most people's bodies don't create enough of this chemical to do them any harm. But 1 out of 10 people's bodies make 4 times as much of this chemical as needed, so it reacts 4 times as strong which in turn creates a vacuum inside your lungs each time you hiccup and it finally implodes on your lungs...and you die.
106390
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.
291056
Phrenic nerve or diaphragmatic irritation, distenttion of the stomach, chest or abdominal surgury, metabolic disorders and intracerebal lesions commonly cause prolonged hiccuping.  Stimulas is usually irritation of the sensory nerve ending in the gastrointestinal tract.
201073
Hiccups are sudden, involuntary contractions of the diaphragm muscle. As the muscle contracts repeatedly, the opening between your vocal cords snaps shut to check the inflow of air and makes the hiccup sound. ... Irritation of the nerves that extend from the neck to the chest can cause hiccups ...Try these methods at home:\n\nHold your breath. \nDrink a glass of water quickly. \nBecome frightened. \nUse smelling salts. \nPull hard on your tongue. \nPlace one-half teaspoon of dry sugar on the back of your tongue. (You can repeat this process 3 times at 2-minute intervals. Use corn syrup, not sugar, in young children.) The reason that these remedies are thought to work is that carbon dioxide build-up in the blood will stop hiccups, which is what happens when you hold your breath.
259380
The way that works 100% of the time for me is:\nTake in all the air you can into your lungs and hold it while taking a small glass of water and drinking it with the smallest gulps you can. Do this until you can't hold your breath any longer. Works first try for me. The constant swallowing action distracts your esophagus and diaphragm long enough to make it forget about the hiccups.
255877
For information about causes and treatment of hiccups, try:\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003068.htm
1038643
Breathing CO2(carbondioxide) eases hiccups. Breathing in a closed environment (like a paper bag) increase CO2 intake, thereby helping ease hiccups. Holding breath does the same.
614650
Hiccups are caused by spasm in the diaphragm, a muscle that lies under your lungs, basically it's a 'nervous twitch' in the diaphragm. If you can force the diaphragm to contract through one or two spasms it will 'reset' itself and the twitch will vanish.\n\nWhen you hold your breath you contract the diaphragm, and when you drink you hold your breath. So by taking along drink you are forcing yourself to hold your breath and  hopefully removing the twitch.\n\n\nA better cure is simply to hold your nose and close your mouth while 'breathing' out slightly for 30 seconds. Like you do to reset popped ears, but keep it up for at least 30 seconds.\n\nSame principle but it works far better than drinking water.
115282
Hiccups may be dangerous, but that's rare. Weight loss, poor wound healing and even death occasionally have been attributed to intractable hiccups.
403419
i think its tied to your emotions. I used to get hiccups every day at the same time. I dont know what that was about.
856031
i have never heard of hiccups destroying brain cells. hiccups are actually caused when your diaphragm spasms.
687935
because the air causes their stomach muscle (i don't know the word in English) to be excited...so the muscle will contract rapidly, causing the air to go out quickly, with a sound...To end it, you must take a deep breath and hold your respiration for about one minute...keep the air in...this will relax the muscle and will cause you to stop the hiccups. when you let the air out, let it out easily, not quickly.
855103
Hiccups are caused by trapped air. Carbonated drinks like soda contain alot of air trapped in bubles which gives it the fizz. Hence those bubbles get trapped and cause you to burb or hiccup.