What causes "ice cream headache"?

Nicci · « **on:** 13/02/2009 07:39:28 »

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

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #1 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

chris · « **Reply #2 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/

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #3 on:** 13/02/2009 09:06:29 »

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

Nicci · « **Reply #4 on:** 13/02/2009 16:22:51 »

Thank you!

Don_1 · « **Reply #5 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.

Nicci · « **Reply #6 on:** 16/02/2009 07:19:33 »

That would do it!

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #7 on:** 16/02/2009 07:25:38 »

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

Nicci · « **Reply #8 on:** 17/02/2009 08:37:48 »

dentstudent · « **Reply #9 on:** 17/02/2009 08:48:23 »

Or this - An alternative to Pennies from Heaven.

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #10 on:** 17/02/2009 08:50:57 »

You'll really get a headache then!

FuzzyUK · « **Reply #11 on:** 27/02/2009 23:57:49 »

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

Or this - An alternative to Pennies from Heaven.

Spending a penny in heaven creates a golden shower.

Chemistry4me · « **Reply #12 on:** 28/02/2009 00:02:11 »

Aye? [

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