Why do you get brain freezes while eating ice cream?

Answer 1

Ice dream or anything cold gives you a brain freeze when it touches the roof of your mouth where there is a blood vessel that connects to your brain. This is why your brain "freezes".

You can put your thumb on the roof of your mouth and the brain freeze normally would go away.

Answer 2

People get brain freezes because the cold beverages you drink or eat cool down the blood in the carotid arteries which are near the throat. Therefore, it causes your brain to temporary "freeze"

Answer 3

Brain freeze occurs when something extremely cold touches roof of the mouth. The pain that we called brain freeze was brought on by a rapid increase in blood flow through a major blood vessel in the brain, the anterior cerebral artery. It normally happens when the weather is very hot, and the individual consumes something cold too fast.

Answer 4

Brain freeze is a headache most commonly associated with the quick consumption of cold substances, such as ice cream. When the cold substance comes into contact with your palate or the roof of your mouth and sinus cavities it causes the blood vessels to vasoconstrict or get smaller.

As the palate warms the blood vessels dilate. This rapid constriction and dilation is detected by pain receptors that travel to the brain via the trigaminal nerve, which also serves as one of the major nerves for the facial area. Because the pain signal travels with the signals coming from the face, the brain thinks it is feeling pain in the face that isn't really there, this is called referred pain.

Answer 5

when you eat the icecream the icecream is really cold. If it hits the roof of your mouth there is a batch of nerves. They send messages to the brain telling you its cold.

Answer 6

by either drinking water or eating something warm.

Answer 7

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