Brain Freeze! What Is It?

6/12/2022

Call it brain freeze or an “ice cream headache” but chances are you’ve experienced the weird pain that comes from eating a cold treat too fast. So what exactly is taking place when that happens?

🧊 The medical term for brain freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

🥶 Basically what’s happening is the icy cold temp of the thing you ate or drank causes the blood vessels in the palate of your mouth to constrict.

❄️ Then, very quickly, the same vessels dilate and blood rushes in to warm them back up.

🧊 This sudden opening of the vessels is transmitted to your brain as pain through the trigeminal nerve, which runs into the middle of your face and up your forehead.

🥶 To help avoid this, pace yourself with icy things and try to avoid sudden extreme shifts and abundances of temperature shifts.

❄️ To help remedy brain freeze pain if it’s happening, press your tongue or your thumb up on the roof of your mouth.

🧊 You can also drink a glass of room-temperature water to help alleviate the pain.

🥶 Either works as a way to bring warmer temperatures back to your palate.

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Amanda is a mother of three (10, 7, and 5) and has been married for 14 years. My weight loss journey started July 17, 2008, one day after my daughter's first birthday. Tipping the scales at 235 pounds at 5'3, being an over weight, over tired, out of shape role model no longer appealed to me and I knew it was time for a change. Three pregnancies later, I had lost a total of 105 pounds. I had run 2 marathons and dozens of half marathons. Something was missing. I was thin, but I wasn't fit. I wasn't healthy. I could feel it in my insides. I was 136 pounds and a size 8. Something didn't add up. I got my certification in personal training, nutrition, weight management, and dove into supplementation and whole foods. 90 days later, I gained 10 pounds and lost two pants sizes (8 to a 4).

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