Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 i think hiccups are the body trying to get more oxygen. so breathe harder like you've been running and distract yourself somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 i distracted myself with whiskey and i have no idea how much oxygen i consumed. enough, i guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 i like this explaination best the hiccup is an evolutionary remnant of earlier amphibian respiration; amphibians such as frogs gulp air and water via a rather simple motor reflex akin to mammalian hiccuping.[4] In support of this idea, they observe that the motor pathways that enable hiccuping form early during fetal development, before the motor pathways that enable normal lung ventilation to form; thus according to recapitulation theory the hiccup is evolutionarily antecedent to modern lung respiration. Additionally, they point out that hiccups and amphibian gulping are inhibited by elevated CO2 and can be completely stopped by the drug Baclofen (a GABAB receptor agonist), illustrating a shared physiology and evolutionary heritage. These proposals would explain why premature infants spend 2.5% of their time hiccuping, indeed they are gulping just like amphibians, as their lungs are not yet fully formed.[5] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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