How to stop brain freeze
Oh hello lovely weather, time for lots of visits to the local ice cream shop for a scoop or two of your favorite ice cream. The only downside when you take a greedy bite? Exactly, brain freeze.
A sudden pain shooting through your forehead, usually lasting only a few seconds but sometimes continuing for a few minutes. Ouch! Your brain really doesn’t freeze. When your tongue touches something very cold, such as an ice cream or slush puppy, a signal is sent to your brain, to which your veins and blood vessels respond. The result is a pounding head.
Prevention
Want to prevent this? Try eating slowly, so the cold doesn’t hit you too suddenly or intensely. With something really delicious, that can be difficult—we get it. The brain freeze signals are sent from the back of your tongue. So if you mainly eat with the tip of your tongue, you have the least chance of getting a headache.
Cure
Were you still too greedy? Then slowly drink warm (but not hot) water or press your tongue against the roof of your mouth. This warms your tongue up a little too, and hopefully makes your brain freeze less intense so you can quickly get back to your next bite of ice cream. For example, at one of these 7 special ice cream parlors in the Netherlands.
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