Hiccups

[minks]

ArnoldLayne wrote: Can someone please give me a scientific explanation of why buttered toast gives me hiccups, always. I know hiccups and why they occur but why toast ?:-3


well scientifically speaking, that is dry stuff, drink more liquid with it. Anything dry causes me to have hiccups hehehehe or slather way more butter on it ahahahahaha

[chonsigirl]

You need some peanut butter on that toast, Arnold..................

[jennyswan]

Hiccup may occur after stretching of the stomach following rapid eating, drinking, or swallowing air. Other common causes are: sudden excitement, a rapid change of temperature or drinking very hot or cold drinks.

Hi Arnold do you maybe always have it with hot tea?

I love toast dunked into tea, butter and all :wah:

When my sister was pregnant with my nephew he had hiccups really regularly

[abbey]

ArnoldLayne wrote: Can someone please give me a scientific explanation of why buttered toast gives me hiccups, always. I know hiccups and why they occur but why toast ?:-3Good question Arnie, and while you're at it, can anyone tell me

why i get hiccups when i turn a certain corner!!

Seriously, everytime i turn to walk into a cartain road, i get hiccups.

[jennyswan]

hiccups when i turn a certain corner!!


Hi Abbey could it be that this corner makes you nervous for some reason. If you rapidly swallow air you can get hiccups??

You can get them from overbreathing (hyperventilating) and this usually happens if some one is excited or in a panic.

[abbey]

jennyswan wrote: Hi Abbey could it be that this corner makes you nervous for some reason. If you rapidly swallow air you can get hiccups??

You can get them from overbreathing (hyperventilating) and this usually happens if some one is excited or in a panic.Your previous explanation to Arnie could be spot on actually,

the wind is always blowing hard into my face when i turn the corner, i'll have to start holding my breath!

[jennyswan]

toast is nice but it doesnt give me goose pimples


Depends on how long it's been waiting to be eaten

[abbey]

Dear Jen, hiccup expert extraordinaire.......



I get hiccups if i eat toasted crusts.

[jennyswan]

Dear Jen, hiccup expert extraordinaire.......

I get hiccups if i eat toasted crusts.


Hi Abbey

I found this explaination:

The diaphragm almost always works perfectly. It pulls down when you inhale to help pull air into the lungs, and it pushes up when you exhale to help push air out of the lungs. But sometimes the diaphragm becomes irritated, and when this happens, it pushes up in a jerky way that makes your breath come out differently from how it normally does. When this irregular breath hits your voice box, you're left with a big hiccup.

Some 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.

The dry toast probably irritates your throat

[valerie]

From an earlier thread:





So forget all those OTHER cures, this one's the REAL DEAL!!

No more trying to find someone to scare you, no more drinking out of the

other side of a glass, no more breathing into a paper bag!!

Now kids, you, too, can cure your hiccups!! And *I* am gonna tell you

how!

It's simple, it's easy, it's fun, it WORKS!! And best of all, it's FREE!!

Here's how ya do it: Take a deep breath and hold it as long as you can...

AFTER THE VERY FIRST HICCUP!! That way, the pattern doesn't get

established. Two hiccups get by ya, it don't work!

Start today! Be the first on your block to try it! Never suffer through

several minutes of hiccups again!

Bye kids!!



:-6

[nvalleyvee]

Had them for 30 minutes......tried holding my breath, eating peanut butter, did the bag thing........WAAAAAAAAAA HIC