Showing posts with label Reason behind headache. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reason behind headache. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Biting into ice cream causes headache

Latest news ...'Brain freeze' is an almost universal experience-almost everyone has felt the near-instantaneous headache brought on by a bite of ice cream or slurp of ice-cold soda on the upper palate.

However, scientists are still at a loss to explain this phenomenon. Since migraine sufferers are more likely to experience brain freeze than people who don't have this often-debilitating condition, brain freeze may share a common mechanism with other types of headaches, including those brought on by the trauma of blast-related combat injuries in soldiers.

One possible link between brain freeze and other headache types is local changes in brain blood flow. In a new study, Melissa Mary Blatt, Michael Falvo, and Jessica Jasien of the Department of Veterans Affairs New Jersey Health Care System,..click here