One way is by sticking your tongue to the roof of your mouth tends to alleviate the problem much more quickly.
When ice cream comes into contact with those blood vessels, they get a cold shock and restrict rapidly. But when you swallow and take away that cold stimulus, your body then triggers another response to dilate those blood vessels, so they open back up . “And so, the rapid change between the constriction and dilation of those blood vessels — that stimulus is then picked up by all of the nerve cells wrapped around them,” Rau explains. “Then, that nerve signal is then sent up to the brain.
“Your brain sometimes has difficulties in trying to figure out where that pain is coming from," Rau says. “Even though the stimulus is in the mouth, our brain interprets that as coming from our forehead. It’s like the referred pain that you may have heard about with heart attacks. It’s not your heart that hurts, it’s your shoulder.”Just because something is uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s dangerous. Rau says it’s a common kind of headache, and luckily goes away quickly.
“It’s a normal response that your body has to cold stimulus,” he says. “It’s nothing to be concerned about. It’s obviously very temporary.”Some research shows that genes could have something to do with it.found that there could be a hereditary component, and noted that students whose parents got ice cream headaches were at an increased risk for experiencing them.
Meanwhile, Rau says that people who get migraines are often more likely to feel brain freeze. “They tend to be more sensitive to ice cream headaches,” he says, “but, oddly enough, if you’re currently having a migraine, some anecdotal evidence shows that if you try to give yourself a brain freeze, it can kind of partially reset parts of your nervous system so that your migraines tend to dissipate more rapidly.
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