It’s known that sneezing is a reflex to prevent dust or nose hairs or whatever from getting down into the lungs, but why do people and animals sometimes get hiccups? What function does that serve, and what causes them?...
I never said it helped in any way, as a matter of fact the experience is absolutely miserable and painful when it happens that way. Not like hiccupping is a voluntary reflex ya know, just saying that having trapped gasses in my belly tends to trigger it sometimes.
When that happens to me, the best thing I can do to try to help is to lay down, and occasionally roll over on my left and right sides, until the gas finally finds it’s way out, usually via burping.
But yeah, these reflexes aren’t exactly voluntary.
That sounds like a combo reflex if you ask me, which actually does happen to me around 20 minutes after I take a vitamin B12 pill. I’ll get like all the reflexes all at once, sneeze, hiccups, coughing, urge to vomit, all at once. All from a vitamin B12 pill. Never again!
From my understanding, that’s actually what causes mammals to yawn. No idea why it seems ‘contagious’ though, obviously yawning is more of a voluntary reflex. So why is it that if you see someone else yawn, you’re likely to also yawn? 🤷♂️
I’ve had a couple people suggest that ain’t even chicken, more like a quail leg, but I swear this is the lame excuse of food we get from KFC here on the Gulf Coast.
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Do hiccups serve any actual useful biological function?
It’s known that sneezing is a reflex to prevent dust or nose hairs or whatever from getting down into the lungs, but why do people and animals sometimes get hiccups? What function does that serve, and what causes them?...
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I see the chicken size post, and match you this pathetic excuse of ‘food’. US penny for scale.
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