What to do with "brain freeze"?
One hears again and again of "brain forest". Of course, this is not a real, frozen brain, but a cold headache that occurs when something cold is eaten or drunk too quickly in a hurry. The causes of this phenomenon and what you can do about it are explained here.
The cause of brain freeze
- A large part of the people knows the phenomenon: It's a hot summer day and for hours you have been looking forward to cooling off and finally you hold an ice-cold drink in your hands. But joy follows pain, because no sooner have you taken the first generous sips than a stabbing pain runs through your head. Here you are dealing with so-called brain freeze. Cold ice cream and soaking your face in really cold water can do this too pains cause.
- The exact causes of brain freeze are not yet fully understood. Two popular theses are that the cold inflicted causes the blood vessels in the frontal sinuses to open constrict, or that as a counter-reaction to the sudden cooling, exactly the opposite happens and the vessels to widen.
- Whatever the ultimate cause of brain freeze, it is a real phenomenon and is not imaginary. It doesn't seem particularly harmful to you, but it still makes sense to spare yourself the sometimes severe pain.
There is something you can do about a cold headache
- There are a number of remedies that are thought to help with brain freeze. Most aim to supply the responsible areas in the oral cavity, presumably the palate region, with warmth. You can do this either by having something warm to drink or by using your body tongue heat. Since brain freeze is usually over after half a minute, countermeasures of this kind are only useful to a limited extent.
- If you want to save yourself the pain, you should eat cold foods and drinks more slowly. This way you will not continue to face the cold headache.
In the past, grandma often warned not to drink anything after eating ice cream. …
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