Are brain freezes bad for the brain?

"Even if the patient wasn't anesthetized, at that temperature they would be in a noninteractive state, unable to sense stimuli or produce a response," Tamargo says. "But once you warm the brain up, it picks right up from where it left off. It's not harmful at all. read more

"Even if the patient wasn't anesthetized, at that temperature they would be in a noninteractive state, unable to sense stimuli or produce a response," Tamargo says."But once you warm the brain up, it picks right up from where it left off. It's not harmful at all." So whether your brain is frozen or not, if you can handle a little pain, slurp away. read more

Brain freeze is also known as ice cream headache, cold stimulus headache, and sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. It is a short-term headache typically linked to the rapid consumption of ice cream, ice pops, or very cold drinks. Brain freeze occurs when something extremely cold touches the upper palate (roof of the mouth). read more