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What causes an ice cream headache?
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Blood being excessively cooled in your neck while you eat and swallow ice cream too quickly. Same effect can be observed while drinking ice cold fizzy drinks or just breathing in really low temperatures. Also exposure to excessive wind chill factors and overcooling your head will give you headache (lets say riding a motorcycle in cold weather with you visor up). It is weird as there is no pain receptors in the brain.


A Cure! (not proven to be scientifically correct)

But suprisingly it works! If you have an icecream headache gently rub your eyes and the pain should dissappear.


Ice cream headaches

The cold temperature on the roof of the mouth causes stimulation of intracranial nerves. The resulting painful sensation is due to the brain's altered perception of stimuli that are usually not perceived as uncomfortable.

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