what makes people hick-up?

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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.

Many conditions are associated with hiccups, but none has been shown to be the cause of hiccups.

If you eat too fast, you can swallow air along with your food and end up with a case of the hiccups.

Any 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.

In 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.

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Spicy food!!

There are tubesin your throat, and when they close, you hiccup. it is from not getting enough air. They close up. I get the hic-ups evry time i take the first sip of a soda..so do all my brothers and sisters..weird huh?

irritaion to the phrenic nerve suplying the diaphragm causes hic ups. often associated with metabolic disturbances, electrolyte imbalance, sudden gastric distension, rarely with cancer.

its HICCUP!

Hiccups are caused by spasms of the diaphragm. when you gulp air, like if you got scare and took a real get gulp of air

Hick-ups are caused by one's diaphram having a spasm.

An uncontrollable urge to be REALLY annoying.

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