Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Hiccups are caused by a sudden and involuntary contraction of the diaphragm, a flat sheet of muscle which sits ...

Nearly 4,000 Americans are hospitalized for hiccups each year, after all. All this begs the question: At what point in our evolution did humans pick up hiccuping? And, beyond being an inconvenience, ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. There are lots of myths about hiccups - from peculiar causes to stories about people who’ve had them for several ...

"Scaring might work. It could be that when you're scared, you're holding your breath and the acid level in your blood goes up and that could trigger the hiccups to go away," Stacey said.