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Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: Nicci on 13/02/2009 07:39:28

Why does the "ice cream headache" happen and why is it so debilitating?

Title: Re: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/02/2009 07:49:14

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When something cold touches the roof of your mouth on a hot day, it triggers a cold headache. The cause is a dilation of blood vessels in the head. The dilation may be caused by a nerve center located above the roof of your mouth -- when this nerve center gets cold, it seems to over-react and tries to heat your brain

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question96.htm

As well as:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_freeze

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton/askasci/1993/biology/bio034.htm

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: chris on 13/02/2009 08:59:17

To protect our own interests, here's the answer we gave to this question on the Naked Scientists programme:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/questions/question/837/

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 13/02/2009 09:06:29

Whoops, sorry chris, I should have done a search before I went looking [:I]

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: Nicci on 13/02/2009 16:22:51

Thank you!

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: Don_1 on 14/02/2009 17:00:08

Another cause of this is when a 25kg tub of ice cream falls on your head from a passing plane.

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: Nicci on 16/02/2009 07:19:33

That would do it!

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 16/02/2009 07:25:38

That's what you call I-sc-ream.

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: Nicci on 17/02/2009 08:37:48

 [;D]

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: dentstudent on 17/02/2009 08:48:23

Or this (http://farshores.org/n06ice3.htm) - An alternative to Pennies from Heaven.

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 17/02/2009 08:50:57

You'll really get a headache then!

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: FuzzyUK on 27/02/2009 23:57:49

Quote from: dentstudent on 17/02/2009 08:48:23

Or this (http://farshores.org/n06ice3.htm) - An alternative to Pennies from Heaven.

Spending a penny in heaven creates a golden shower.

Title: What causes "ice cream headache"?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 28/02/2009 00:02:11

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