What causes 'ice cream' headaches....?

Question

I know I am put this in the wrong section..

Answer 1

Aaah, the joy of a popsicle on a hot summer day.
One theory places the source for the brain freeze in the sinuses, where the pain may be caused by the rapid cooling of the air in the frontal sinuses. This triggersr the local pain receptors. Another theory postulates that the constriction of blood vessels in the roof and rear of the mouth causes pain receptiors to overload and refer the pain to your head. There is a nerve center there, in the back of your mouth, called the sphenopalatine ganglion, and this is the most likely source of the dreaded icecream headache. A friend of ours suggested a quick cure of rapidly rubbing your tongue on the roof of your mouth to warm it up. Her demonstration included a bizarre clucking sound.

Answer 2

While this is the religious section, I can tell you.
Basically when you eat ice cream, the cold hits the nerves of the soft palate, shooting straight up to your brain.
A good trick when you feel it coming is to use your tounge and rub it around, as well as continually flatten your tounge on the roof of your mouth and let go, "warming" up the nerves and helping with the headache as fast as possible.

Answer 3

The coldness of the ice cream causes the blood vessels in the roof of your mouth to contract, giving you the headache. Rub the top of your mouth with your tongue to warm them back up and the headache will go away.

Answer 4

Most people call it brain freeze because the cold hits the oropharyngeal area and the roof of the mouth, which is very thin, so the cold passes thru to the cerebral spinal fluid surrounding the brain, thus causing "brain Freeze."

Ice Cream, slushies, and such are the worst.

Answer 5

Freezing temperature ice cream coming in contact with nerves at normal body interior temperatures. Sort of like when a warm Pagan walks into an Ice Cold fundamentalist church.

Now, it's on topic.

Answer 6

The reaction can be sometimes triggered within a few seconds after a very cold substance consumed comes into contact with the stomach. The body's response to cold environments is to reduce the diameter of blood vessels. This vasoconstriction is in place to reduce blood flow to the area, and thus minimize heat loss to keep warmth in the body. After vasoconstriction, vessels return to normal status and artery size results in massive dilation (vasodilation) of the arteries that supply the palate (descending palatine arteries). The nerves in the region of the palate (greater and lesser palatine nerves) sense this pain and transmit the sensation of this pain back to the trigeminal ganglia. This results in pain that is referred to the forehead and below the orbit, other regions from which the trigeminal nerve receives sensation (This phenomenon is partially similar to the referred pain that is present in the left arm when someone is having a myocardial infarction).

Answer 7

To make it short, another name for it is 'brain freeze' and that sum it up a little...

Hope this helps :-)

Answer 8

Uhh....ice cream. (because its cold, and if you eat it too fast, it causes a headache)

Answer 9

The ice cream.

Answer 10

religion section sorry