What's wrong with the hiccups?

1. Eating habits

or drinking too fast, eating big, eating spicy food, etc., may increase the opportunity to swallow air, stimulate diaphragm contraction and cause hiccups.

2. Gastrointestinal motility disorders

, such as delayed gastric emptying, indigestion, etc., can increase the gas in the stomach and reflux up to the esophagus, forming hiccups.

3. Gastroesophageal reflux

When gastric acid and some food contents reflux to the esophagus, it will stimulate the lower esophageal sphincter, resulting in frequent hiccups, feeling gas upwelling.