7/15/2023 0 Comments Brain freeze![]() Since then we have heard from many others that inducing “brain freeze” (sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia) can often interrupt a migraine attack. “After popping pain pills all day with no relief, why does eating spoonfuls of chocolate peanut butter ice cream take the pain right away?” Eleven years ago we first heard from a reader with weather-related migraine headaches: I skipped to the kitchen where I have stocked up on orange sherbet and literally doused my headache out with a couple of cold scoops. ![]() Today, sitting at my desk at home, I started to feel the tension on my head and neck that’s a migraine warning. Well wouldn’t you know, within 10 minutes of having my cold dessert, my headache was almost gone. I got a scoop of orange sherbet, hoping that it might somehow help. Last week I was at the drugstore to pick up a prescription when I developed one of the typical precursors to my migraines.Īfter receiving my meds at the pharmacy counter, I stopped at the ice cream counter on the way out. I’ve been experiencing migraines for years and years, with little help from medications. ![]() Could there be a scientific explanation for this phenomenon? Ice Cream Against Migraines? Nonetheless, readers kept telling us that suffering an ice cream headache or brain freeze could often stop a migraine in its tracks. Could an ice cream headache help interrupt a migraine or a cycle of migraines? For years, doctors thought there was no relationship whatsoever between the two types of headaches ( Bird, MacGregor & Wilkinson, Headache, Jan.
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