Two Methods: Relieving Brain Freeze Preventing Brain Freeze Community Q&A Nothing ruins the refreshing consumption of a cold substance on a hot day like a painful "brain freeze", also known as an "ice cream headache" or "cold-stimulus headache" and medically as Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia (the pronouncing of which can give a headache as well). read more
Brain Freeze (sometimes called an “Ice Cream Headache”) is caused by the blood vessels above the roof of your mouth responding to prevent a loss of heat in your head and therefore protect your brain. The blood vessels in your head widen to let in more blood (more heat). read more