What Are Exertion Headaches?

Cold drink headache, also known as ice cream headache, is caused by eating a large amount of cold drink at one time.

Cold drink headache

Cold drink headache, also known as ice cream headache, is caused by eating a large amount of cold drink at one time.

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Cold drink headache

Common causes

Eat lots of cold drinks at once

Common symptoms

headache

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Ice cream headache

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Although the area of the upper jaw is small, a large number of nerves and blood vessels are hidden inside. When you swallow a large cold drink or eat a large glass of ice cream in one breath, cold food comes into contact with your palate. The nerve in the upper jaw may send a false signal that the brain is too cold and needs to be heated to protect it. As a result, blood vessels near the brain relax and blood flow increases. The increased blood flow in the brain is one of the main causes of various headaches.

On the other hand, cold stimulation immediately contracted the blood vessels of the upper jaw, and this contraction stimulated the pain nerves here, and the pain immediately passed back to the brain. The problem is that there are a lot of faces

Cold drinks are best eaten in the middle of two meals, because eating cold drinks on an empty stomach can irritate the gastric mucosa and cause blood vessels to contract due to cold mucous membranes. This can cause gastric mucosa ischemia and lead to gastritis for a long time; It will cause disorders in the stomach environment and affect digestion. Cold gastrointestinal stimulation will accelerate peristalsis, shorten the residence time of food in the small intestine, and affect the absorption of nutrients. Do not eat cold drinks immediately after sweating. Because when sweating, your body temperature will rise and your throat will become congested. Eating cold drinks at this time, sudden gastrointestinal and pharynx irritation can cause diarrhea or inflammation and pain in the pharynx. When the sweat is dripping, dry the sweat first, drink a little warm tea, and then take a cold drink. "Ice cream headache" is self-limiting, even if it is not treated, it will improve on its own; prevention is not difficult, as long as you slow down the eating speed when eating cold drinks and do not swallow directly to the back of the mouth, no headache .

In addition, try to eat cold drinks as little as possible, and avoid too fast when eating cold drinks, which are all ways to prevent cold drink headaches.

Once the "ice cream headache" occurs, you can use your hands to repeatedly perform local massage to relieve the contraction of blood vessels and muscles in the head caused by sudden cold stimulation, and reduce pain. If you have a severe headache, you can take painkillers under the guidance of your doctor. Open your mouth to breathe, let the cold food leave your upper jaw, and let the hot air from outside come in quickly to warm your mouth and nasal cavity, which is also a good way to relieve it.