While hiccups are typically short-lived, they can also be painful, loud and disruptive—especially if they last hours (or more!). But what causes hiccups, and how can you get rid of them? Here, doctors ...

Very few of us haven't experienced those strange sounds known as hiccups that sometimes escape our mouths without warning. It's an occurrence we frequently find funny when it happens to others, but it ...

Hiccups occur when your diaphragm contracts in a spastic, involuntary manner. You can get rid of hiccups by stopping the spasms.

What Are Hiccups?- Hiccups are sudden, involuntary spasms of the diaphragm, the muscle located between the lungs and stomach.- This spasm pulls air into the throat, causing the vocal cords to close ...

Baby hiccups are normal, harmless, and should resolve within 15 minutes to an hour.

Everyone knows that little discomfort that arrives without warning: a strange sound, a little jump, and it's off for a ...