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Have you ever wondered why the cool ice cream, delicious ice cubes sometimes bring numbness from the throat to the brain?

Learn the feeling of numbness up to the brain when eating ice cream too cold

On hot weather, an ice cream or a glass of cold water is indeed a way many people choose to cool off.

However, have you ever wondered that when you eat ice cream or drink too cold water, you are likely to encounter frostbite from the palate to the top of the head? This phenomenon is quite annoying, but why do they appear?

It is estimated that in the world, one in three people will experience the feeling of being brave for eating cold food at least once in their lives.

This phenomenon has been recorded in print texts since 1939 and was officially recognized as a headache caused by cold food in 1988 by the International Headache Association.

By 2013, this phenomenon has been called 'cold-induced headaches' by experts and researchers .

If you accidentally experience this phenomenon, the most painful position on the head is usually just behind the forehead, but there are other positions near the ear or behind the eye.

When your brain gets cold because the food is too cold, you will immediately experience an intense feeling of tension in every attack and as if there is a sharp object stabbed in your head. This is a completely uncomfortable feeling for those who unfortunately have it.

The cause of these headaches comes from the sensory nervous system in the mouth , with a system of many nerves. These are nerve bundles that transmit the sensation received from the palate to the brain's processor.

Whenever receiving cold, immediately hot blood will be mobilized to the brain - distributed by the brain to warm the cold area in the body.

A sudden change in temperature will cause the blood vessels to show continuous contractions and contractions to help the body quickly respond to cold stimuli.

After observing the phenomenon, the researchers concluded that it is the continuous contractions and expansion of blood vessels in the nasopharynx that are the direct cause of sharp pain when we bring cold food into our mouths. to eat.

Based on the above mechanism, scientists have concluded, this is a phenomenon not too dangerous. However, we also need to pay attention to eating to limit this phenomenon to avoid the risk of affecting the brain and nervous system.

In addition, some other researchers have suggested that the brainstorming phenomenon of eating too cold has an intimate relationship with migraine.

In 2004, Macit Selekler, a Turkish neurologist, and his colleagues did an experiment. He asked volunteers to put a small block of ice in his mouth. Experimental results showed that 60% of volunteers felt bitter and 80% of these people had migraine.

Another Taiwanese neurologist - Jong-Ling Fuh said that the phenomenon of eating ice cream and brain migraines is related.

There were 9,000 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 15 volunteering to participate in the experiment. Up to 40% of them feel the phenomenon of brain sharpness and 15% of them have confirmed the occurrence of migraine.

So far, the intimate relationship between the brain and migraine phenomenon is still in research. Scientists are still working to make a final conclusion about this relationship.

However, in the opinion of experts today, if a person has signs of brainstorming after eating too cold food, it is more likely a warning for a migraine. Although this warning has not been officially recognized by the scientific community, it is also a measure for us to prevent the disease.