Why do people hiccups??
Answers: What a dumb question!
You posted: why do people hiccups?
People do not hiccups
They hiccup or they have the hiccups.
A hiccup is an involuntary spasmodic contraction of the muscle at the base of the lungs (diaphragm) followed by the rapid closure of the vocal cords. Usually, hiccups last for a few hours or, occasionally, a day or two. However, chronic hiccups are ones that continue for an extended period of time. Episodes that last for more than two days and less than a month are sometimes called persistent hiccups. On rare occasions, hiccups persist even longer than a month or recur frequently over an extended period of time. The longest recorded episode of these chronic hiccups lasted 60 years.
something is not right between the lung and throat..i guess so
Why do we hiccup? I don't know, and as far as I can tell, neither does anyone else. Unlike gagging, sneezing, etc., hiccups serve no known useful function. Some speculate that hiccups may represent a vestigial remnant of a primitive reflex whose functional or behavioral significance is now lost, as one researcher put it.
http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_ato...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_...
http://adam.about.com/encyclopedia/00306...
You posted: why do people hiccups?
People do not hiccups
They hiccup or they have the hiccups.
A hiccup is an involuntary spasmodic contraction of the muscle at the base of the lungs (diaphragm) followed by the rapid closure of the vocal cords. Usually, hiccups last for a few hours or, occasionally, a day or two. However, chronic hiccups are ones that continue for an extended period of time. Episodes that last for more than two days and less than a month are sometimes called persistent hiccups. On rare occasions, hiccups persist even longer than a month or recur frequently over an extended period of time. The longest recorded episode of these chronic hiccups lasted 60 years.
something is not right between the lung and throat..i guess so
Why do we hiccup? I don't know, and as far as I can tell, neither does anyone else. Unlike gagging, sneezing, etc., hiccups serve no known useful function. Some speculate that hiccups may represent a vestigial remnant of a primitive reflex whose functional or behavioral significance is now lost, as one researcher put it.
http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_ato...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_...
http://adam.about.com/encyclopedia/00306...
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