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Brain Freeze

  • April 9, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

If you consume something really cold too quickly, you may experience sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia — aka brain freeze. When the cold touches the warm roof of your mouth, blood vessels swell up, triggering pain receptors that give you that sudden forehead twinge.

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