Doe's anyone know what happens when you get a brain-freeze?My husband gets one every time he drinks a slush!!!

Answer 1

Simple..... your brain freezes for a moment.

Answer 2

The terms brain freeze and ice cream headache refer to the same painful headache many people get when quickly eating something cold. The pain is caused by the rapid cooling of the roof of the mouth, which is close to the sphenopalatine nerve, a section of an extensive bundle of nerves running from the face up into the brain.

The quickest way to relieve a brain freeze it to take a drink of warm water and hold it against the roof of your mouth. Since they are over so quickly anyway and it's unlikely that you're going to be holding a cup of hot water in one hand at the same time that you are holding an ice cream cone in the other, the next best thing to do is press your tongue against the roof of your mouth to rewarm the nerve.

Answer 3

There's a nerve in the roof of your mouth that triggers the cold headache when it gets too cold. The trick is to warm up the place with your tongue or else to tuck the straw in the side of your mouth so the slush doesn't make direct contact with the nerve.

Answer 4

I know how to stop it. I saw it on t.v. and it works
press your tounge up against the roof of your mouth right behind your teeth, hard it will warm up the roof of your mouth and, in turn it makes the head ache go away faster.

also since I learned this, I have been able to avoid brain-freeze altogether by putting the straw further into my mouth to keep that forward part of the roof of my mouth warm

Answer 5

It's just a nerve overload in the roof of the mouth tell him to sip slower and he he does get brain freeze stick his tongue to the roof of his mouth too warm it up again.

Answer 6

he is sucking to fast