• Question: Why do we hiccup and why?

    Asked by 585spah49 to Lucy, Hannah on 13 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Hannah Sargeant

      Hannah Sargeant answered on 13 Mar 2017:

      A hiccup is caused by your diaphragm (the muscle sat underneath your lungs). Sometimes your diaphragm squeezes by accident causing a hiccup. Some people have hiccups that last years, and the record is 68 years!!

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