Hiccups at night may be caused by dietary factors, indigestion, Helicobacter pylori infection, chronic gastritis and other factors.
1. Dietary factors: If you eat easy to gas-producing foods such as beans, sweet potatoes, carbonated beverages and so on. After intake will make the gastrointestinal tract peristalsis accelerated, and in the process of digestion to produce a lot of gas will appear hiccup symptoms.
2. Indigestion: If you eat too much food at night, or too greasy, it will aggravate the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and slow down the gastric emptying time, leading to the prolonged presence of food in the stomach, which will cause abnormal fermentation and gas, and then hiccups will occur.
3. Helicobacter pylori infection: when there is Helicobacter pylori infection, many people will have the symptom of hiccups, if the night eating cold, or eating spicy and stimulating food, can induce the symptom of hiccups.
4. Chronic gastritis: If you have chronic gastritis, when you eat indigestible or spicy, stimulating, cold food at night, it will stimulate the gastric mucosa, leading to diaphragmatic spasm, and hiccups will not stop.
There may be other pathological factors that may cause the hiccups at night, so it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible and take relevant measures with the help of the doctor.