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BRAIN FREEZE: HERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT




Have you ever had a slight form of headache; usually sharp, that occurs when you’re trying to quickly gulp down some ice cream or cold beverage in a rush? Well, if yes… then, you sure know what it feels like to have a ‘brain freeze’.  Don’t panic as your brain doesn’t actually freeze, it’s just a term used to qualify what it feels like.

Cold-stimulus headache, also known as brain freeze is a form of brief pain or headache which usually occurs as a result of quick consumption of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream and ice pops. The scientific term for this is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia i.e "pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion”. It is known to result from a nerve response causing rapid constriction and swelling of blood vessels from the roof of the mouth to the head.

Here's how it happens: When you slurp a really cold drink or eat ice cream too fast you are rapidly changing the temperature in the back of the throat at the juncture of the internal carotoid artery, which feeds blood to the brain, and the anterior cerebral artery, which is where brain tissue starts. Your body therefore tries to ‘apply the brakes’ by causing a sensation of pain in an attempt to stop you from continuing.   

The brain, despite its billions of neurons, can't actually feel pain, but the pain associated with brain freeze is sensed by receptors in the outer covering of the brain called the meninges, where the two arteries meet. When the cold hits, it causes a dilation and contraction of these arteries and that's the sensation that the brain is interpreting as pain.

To relieve this pain, some doctors usually suggest pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth to warm the area, tilting the head back for 20 seconds, or drinking something warmer than whatever caused the headache. Some people have however reported relief by breathing in through the mouth and out through the nose, thus passing warm air through the nasal passages.

Stay tuned to this blog for more updates and please let me know what you’re thinking by dropping your comments in the comments section below. Thank you!


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