Eat ice cream, the brain will be "frozen"?

2017-06-19 Source: Beijing Evening News

      Days of children hot, and eat more ice cream, but Ms. Sun even after eating a few ice cream, feeling a headache, could not sleep. After examination, Ms. Sun was diagnosed with "brain icing."

      How are there "brain icing" Did the head hear the nonsense? We know that the brain is the most important and delicate organ of the human body, it is very demanding for the environment, too cold, overheating, blood flow is too small, too much, will cause adverse consequences, if the brain really frozen, Will be catastrophic consequences.

      "Brain icing" in the end how is it?

      In fact, the "brain icing" is not really frozen brain, the so-called "brain icing" refers to a large number of fast eating ice cream and other cold food, low temperature stimulation of the mouth caused by a headache-based chain reaction The

      As early as the eighties of last century, the Western medical community to note that this situation, due to eating ice cream after the occurrence, and is known as "ice cream headache", medical scientists have also studied this phenomenon.

      In order to explore the source of "brain icing", the author in the United States National Medical Library conducted a professional search, and did not find "brain icing" of the literature, that foreign and no such argument, on the contrary, "ice cream headache" Literature can be found some, therefore, "brain icing" abroad and no such argument, but also with the actual situation does not match. The name of the specification should be "ice cream headache".

      Therefore, we do not recommend too much to say that this symptom is called "brain icing", after all, this is not a standardized disease name, but also easy to cause people's panic, should be called "ice cream headache."

      "Ice cream headache" how come?

      "Ice cream headache" is essentially a kind of vascular nerve headache. Cause a lot of causes of vascular neuropathic headache, due to eating cold drink headache mainly for two reasons, one is a history of migraine before people, eat a lot of cold drinks are stimulated, can stimulate the nerve and cause headaches. In an experimental study of a "ice cream headache" in Turkey in 2004, 74% of migraine patients had "ice cream headache", compared with 32% in tense headache patients. An 8359 juvenile survey in Taiwan also confirmed that the prevalence of "ice cream headache" increased significantly in migraine students, reducing or abandoning edible ice cream, reducing "ice cream headache".

      Second, cold drinks into the mouth, to the relatively high temperature of the tongue and oral mucosa caused by a strong stimulus, causing temporal artery spasm, and then to passive expansion, the impact of blood flow on the expansion of the arterial wall of the pain nerve head and headache. At the same time, cold food to stimulate the lower palate muscle nerve, and conduction to the brain central nervous system, causing headaches, dizziness and other symptoms. A study published in the European Journal of Neurology confirmed that "ice cream headache" is due to trigeminal nerve pathway paroxysmal discharge and pain control mechanism caused by defects.

      "Ice cream headache" how to deal with?

      After eating a lot of cold food, headache, mainly in the middle of the forehead or near the temple of severe pain, and there may be tears, nausea, vomiting. Duration is tens of seconds to several tens of minutes, or even longer.

      If you eat a lot of cold drinks after the performance, it is necessary to consider the "ice cream headache", and can massage their own parts of the pain, but also pinch the pain side of the Hoku, can relieve symptoms, at the same time, to stop eating cold drinks, Water to improve the temperature of the mouth, but also help to relieve symptoms.

      If after the above treatment, the symptoms did not ease, it is necessary to timely treatment to the hospital, so as not to delay the disease.

      "Ice cream headache" prevention is to avoid a lot of eating cold food, especially in the hot season, outdoor sports, cerebrovascular is the expansion, if you eat a lot of cold food, or cold water punch, it will cause "ice cream headache".

      In the cold weather, but also pay attention to the head of the insulation, to avoid prolonged exposure to the cold air, can prevent the disease.

      In fact, the "ice cream headache" is not nothing, 2006 "International Dermatology Magazine" on the report with "ice cream headache" treatment of actinic keratosis, the principle is to use low temperature for treatment, similar to our commonly used Cryotherapy Of course, in the highly developed medical technology today, this treatment is how much practical value, remains to be further studied.

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      Drink hot drinks like "ice cream headache"

      In 2004 Turkey reported two cases of drinking hot carbonated drinks after the "ice cream headache", they think, "ice cream headache" migraine is more likely to occur after drinking hot drinks, the reason in addition to the rate of intake of drinks And temperature, but also with the central sensitivity.

      Therefore, the "ice cream headache" is not a cold food patent, should be a variety of hot and cold uneven stimulation of the mouth, resulting in nerve and blood vessels caused by the interaction between. Avoiding ingestion of supercooled and overheated foods is the key to preventing "ice cream headaches".

      It should be said, "ice cream headache" is not entirely caused by the ice cream, and even hot drinks can also be caused, therefore, "ice cream headache" name is not appropriate, how more accurate, more realistic name, yet to be experts Research.