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Quick Answer. Hiccups resulting from surgery may be caused by a reaction to anesthesia or happen as a result of abdominal surgery or medical procedures such as a tracheotomy, states Healthline. Using a catheter to access the heart, bronchoscopy or using a stent in the esophagus can also result in long-term hiccups.
Hold your ears and drink! (Sonya Green via Flickr/Creative Commons) For years, Iâve wondered what a hiccup actually is. We all get them. For me, spicy food is a trigger, but hiccups result from laughing too hard, drinking too quickly or even sudden excitement or stress. Even fetuses and animals can get hiccups. Hiccups occur when our diaphragmâa relatively thin layer of muscle just below our lungsâcontracts erratically,...