Most of the time when you eat something from the fridge the brain freezes and you feel something like an electrical current running through your whole body. so can somebody explain to me why this is happening and how to get rid of it quickly because this thing has been bothering me for some time now
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It’s called “referred pain.” It’s when you feel pain in a part of your body that’s different from where the pain is actually happening. Heart attacks are probably the most widely known instance of this phenomenon. When someone is having a heart attack, especially men, they frequently feel pain in their left arm, despite the location of the injury being their heart.
When you eat something cold, it causes the blood vessels in the top of your mouth to rapidly constrict. The nerve response is felt as pain, not in your mouth, but “referred” to your head.
Moving your tongue to the top of your mouth will help. The heat from your tongue will help the cold dissipate from the top of your mouth, and the pain will go away too.
to avoid brain freeze
A. let some air into your mouth after putting in the cold stuff, to make a gap between the cold stuff and the roof of your mouth
B. if you start to feel it rub the roof of your mouth with your tongue
but still don’t go too crazy with chugging cold stuff, heart freeze is worse the brain freeze
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