Hiccups equal bloat? - Page 1

This may just be a dumb question but my 5 & 1/2 month old GSD girl gets the hiccups at least twice a day.  Sometimes right after she eats but sometimes just out of the clear blue sky.  Could this mean she is predisposed to bloat?  We feed kibble that has been wetted and allowed to swell before it is presented to her and she doesn't drink after eating.  We crate her after her meal if she gets rambunctious so that she is calm for at least half an hour afterwards.  We feed Canidae three times a day but are getting ready to drop it to twice a day.  She is in awesome form and healthy.  The hiccups don't last long but they are hard hiccups.  Am I worried about nothing?  Thanks in advance for your comments.
Deb 

 I heard dogs who hiccup are LESS likely to bloat. (Being able to expel air/gas is a good thing.)

That's comforting to hear beetree!  I've never had a dog that hiccuped like this one.  
I appreciate your input. 
Deb

Our fellow got hiccups from time to time when he was a puppy - I think it's pretty common in young dogs. As he got older, they went away.......nothing to worry about.

 ...well  maybe I should have had my coffee first, I think it really was dogs who BURP not hiccup, are less prone to bloat!  So your dog , she's probably just swallowed some air but needs to get it out. Sorry for the confusion! 

Thay's ok beetree...she burps too.  It's like living with a teenage boy!    She's a trip! 

AnjaBlue thanks for the comment.  Nice to know it will probably be outgrown.

I feel better now!
Deb

I've had several pups that were very prone to hiccups when they were little. They all grew out of it.

Almost all dogs hiccup, just like humans, especially when they are pups. There is no correlation between hiccups, which are due to a temporary perturbation of the phrenic nerve and bloat or any other condition. If the hiccups are constant and never go away, that is a different story.

I thought hiccups were more realted to the gas exchange in the lungs not being equalized with resperation and not the digestive system, at least for humans.  Its why breathing into a bag, holding your breath ect are "cures"

Hiccups can be caused by too little carbon dioxide in the body as well.  When one breathes into a paper bag, that causes you to "re-breathe" carbon dioxide you just exhaled.  In a few minutes you will stop hiccuping because the proper balance of gases in the blood is re-established. There are a lot of potential causes for hiccups, fortunately, most of them not serious and transient.