I’ve always wanted to know why you get a ‘brain freeze’ headache after eating ice-cream quickly, and now I know. More importantly, I know how to stop it.
‘When cold stuff (like popsicles, ice cream or slushies) touches the roof of your mouth it can set off a nerve reaction (in the spheno-palantine ganglion, to be precise), that causes the blood vessels in your brain to swell.’