Also known as:
- ice cream headache
- cold-stimulus headache
- sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (scientific name)
"sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia means nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion"Brain freeze is a momentary headache or cranial pain from quick consumption of of cold food or beverages like ice cream and popsicles.
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Wikipedia says:It is caused by having something cold touch the roof of the mouth (palate), and is believed to result from a nerve response causing rapid constriction and swelling of blood vessels or a "referring" of pain from the roof of the mouth to the head. The rate of intake for cold foods has been studied as a contributing factor.
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