Truth. It hurts my head. This is literally what they call it - ice cream headache.
In the case of ice cream or cold drinks, the palate or the back of the throat should be cooled. But you can put your whole head in cold water. This happens with divers.
After a few seconds, the head starts to hurt. The forehead usually hurts. Pressing or there may be a sharp pain. Then this pain can spread to the temples and reaches the back of the head. Usually 20 - 60 seconds the pain increases and decreases for about the same amount of time.
It is generally accepted that it is the branches of the trigeminal nerve that are frozen. It belongs to the cranial nerves.
It is believed that this nerve triggers a spasm of the arteries inside the brain. But it is not exactly.
Maybe it's because of the cooling of the blood vessels at the level of the pharynx.
You and I have already dealt with a similar story. about a flushed face. Only there the brain overheated from hot tea. People drank something hot, and it heated the blood in the arteries inside the neck. The heated blood flowed to the brain, and he tried to cool down by dilating the vessels on his face. The same thing, just the opposite.
Nothing needs to be done about the pain of ice cream. If it interferes with life, then do not eat cold.
They say that almost half of people have this. I have more of ice water. And you?
