We have all hiccuped at one time or the other and we all give out funny noises while doing so. Some people find it amusing to do, some people hates it when they hear it, some gets irritated and wonder what the person ate that it is making them hiccup so much. Sometimes when people eat a lot, they get many hiccups, and they wonder what causes hiccups. Well to be scientifically or rather biologically correct, hiccups originate from a dome shaped muscle in our body named as the diaphragm. The diaphragm lies just above the stomach and it separates our upper body from the lower body.
What does the diaphragm has to do with a hiccup?
The diaphragm works smooth and perfectly as always. When we inhale air, then the diaphragm pulls down and it helps you to pull air into your lungs. When you exhale or breathe out, then the diaphragm relaxes and air flows out of the lungs back and out through our nostrils and mouth. One must be wondering, in all of these what is the relation between the diaphragm and what causes hiccups. Well, we are getting there slowly. Sometimes, the diaphragm gets bothered and it pulls down in a rough way and you suck some air into you all of a sudden and when the sudden rush of air hits one's voice box one ends with having a hiccup and a question on their mind that what causes hiccups which have been partly answered to already.
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