Can you still get hiccups under water?
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Yes you can. I have had them when i went swimming once and my friends can confirm this as they laughed at me :(.\n\nHiccups are a spasm of your diaphragm.\nWhen you inhale, it pulls down to help pull air into the lungs. When you exhale, it pushes up to help push air out of the lungs. But sometimes the diaphragm becomes irritated. When this happens, it pulls down in a jerky way, which makes you suck air into your throat suddenly. When the air rushing in hits your voice box, you're left with a big hiccup. I guess you could help relive hiccups if u dive deep in water as there will be more pressure trying to contract you rip cage which would reduce the amount of spasm and the holding of breath whilst underwater would probley help too.
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Hiccups may be dangerous, but that's rare. Weight loss, poor wound healing and even death occasionally have been attributed to intractable hiccups.
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While standing, hold your breathe, and try to touch your toe and stay in that position as long as you can stand it. \n\nSeveral times until hiccups dissapear. It really works!
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i think you might be sucking in air when you eat. i find that when i eat bread(the yeast in itcauses air)i get hiccups.
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"Hic!" You've just hiccuped for what seems like the tenth time since you finished your big dinner. Wonder where these funny noises are coming from? The part to blame is your diaphragm (say: die-uh-fram). This is a dome-shaped muscle at the bottom of your chest, and all hiccups start here.\n\nThe diaphragm almost always works perfectly. When you inhale, it pulls down to help pull air into the lungs. When you exhale, it pushes up to help push air out of the lungs. But sometimes the diaphragm becomes irritated. When this happens, it pulls down in a jerky way, which makes you suck air into your throat suddenly. When the air rushing in hits your voice box, you're left with a big hiccup.\n\nSome things that irritate the diaphragm are eating too quickly or too much, an irritation in the stomach or the throat, or feeling nervous or excited. Almost all cases of the hiccups last only a few minutes. Some cases of the hiccups can last for days or weeks, but this is very unusual, and it's usually a sign of another medical problem.\n\nYou've probably heard lots of suggestions for how to get rid of hiccups, and maybe you've even tried a few. Holding your breath and counting to 10 is one way some people can get rid of their hiccups. Other people say that drinking from the "wrong" side of a glass of water is the way to become hiccup-free.\n\nPutting sugar under your tongue might work, too. And maybe the most famous treatment - having someone jump out and scare you when you're not expecting it - helps some people wave good-bye to their hiccups. Boo!
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Hiccups are usually a reaction to your stomach and digestive system getting wonky. This happens when you eat too much, drink bubbly drinks like soda or swallow too much air. Some people get the hiccups for no reason at all. Other things that cause hiccups include skull fracture, epilepsy, tuberculosis and believe it or not, constipation (not being able to poop).
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Hiccups occur when a spasm contracts the diaphragm, a large sheet of muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity. This spasm causes an intake of breath that is suddenly stopped by the closure of the vocal cords (glottis). This closure causes the characteristic "hiccup" sound. A very full stomach can cause bouts of hiccups that go away on their own. Full stomach can be caused by: eating too much too fast, drinking too much alcohol, swallowing too much air, smoking, sudden change in stomach temperature, such as drinking a hot beverage and then a cold beverage, and emotional stress or excitement. Hiccups that last longer than 48 hours are called persistent hiccups. Hiccups that last longer than a month are called intractable hiccups.  Both persistent and intractable hiccups may be a sign of a more serious health problem and require an exam by a health professional. There really is no way to prevent them.
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you need to get in touch with your doctor or get a doctor,cuz you might have a illness that irritates the phrenic nerve in the diaphragm,you can get hiccups when you overeat,eatting too fast,drinking carbonated beverages.This method that someone told me to do once when I had the hiccups get a glass of water, a straw, put the straw in the glass of water put your mouth on the straw and block your ears with your fingers and drink the water thur the straw all of it. It works everytime when I have the hiccups.Good Luck.....
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For a headache take anadin extra.For hiccups drink water from the opposite side of the glass,sounds weird but it really works..
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Suck in as much air as you possibly can - so much that it prevents the hiccup spasm occuring - and hold it as long as you can.  Simple, effective.
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I don't see how sneezing underwater could be possible. I mean, getting the urge to sneeze occurs because something tickles our hair follicles inside our nose as we breathe. But because breathing underwater isn't possible without scuba gear, I don't think that getting the urge to sneeze underwater would be possible either.\n\nIf water did happen to get in your nose, your natural reaction is to immediately surface and breathe in air in order to clear your lungs. So if someone did somehow happen to get the urge to sneeze underwater, their reaction would be to surface and then sneeze.
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1.   Swallow 1 tsp. white table sugar, dry. A study found that this stopped hiccups immediately in 19 out of 20 people. Repeat up to three more times at 2-minute intervals if necessary.  \n  \n2.   Gulp down a glass of water if the sugar doesn't work.  \n  \n3.   Eat a piece of dry bread slowly.  \n  \n4.   Breathe in and out of a paper bag. Do not use a plastic bag under any circumstances, and don't do this longer than 1 minute.  \n  \n5.   Gargle with water (see 'How to Gargle').  \n  \n6.   Repeat the above steps until your hiccups stop.
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this a no fail way to get rid of the hiccups \nplace a pencil in your mouth to where you are biting it in the middle of the pencil and then just drink some water its hard to drink but it will get rid of them
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I can tell you that a hiccup is caused by a spasm in the diaphragm (a muscle that separates your chest region from your abdominal region). As the diaphragm is thrown into spasm the hiccup occurs.\nHope this answers your question!
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Hiccups are causes by your diaphragm being in spasm.  So my theory is try to get the diaphragm out of spasm by tweaking it.  Breathe in deeply and expand your chest and push out your stomach muscles.  Hold it for as long as you can, and then repeat.  It does work most of the time.\n\nIf you would a long list of possible solutions please check this link.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccups
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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.
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Take a teaspoon of sugar or the sugar from one sugar packet and pour it on your tongue.  Let it disolve there.  By the time its disolved, your hiccups will be gone.  My kids used to get hiccups intentionally just so they could have the cure.  It works every time. \n\nAnother thing you could try is breathing slowly in and out of a small paper bag.  Thats the only thing that helps me.  Drinking never did help me with them.