Can brain freeze kill you?

Brain freeze is actually the brain’s way of telling you to slow down, says Dr. Dwayne Godwin, a neuroscientist at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. “Brain freeze is really a type of headache that is rapid in onset, but rapidly resolved as well,” Godwin says. read more

No you can't die from a brain freeze. Basically, chemical receptors in your brain are telling your body that you're cold. So to increase the blood flow, your blood vessels expand to let more blood circulate in your head. read more

"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