Eat ice cream will damage the brain?

Dreadful hot autumn is still hold sway, indoor and outdoor is now hot and now cold.

I want to drink small pebbles, but when we smoked cold drink quickly feel the headache when suddenly — terrible feeling of brain freeze. However, what's the most delicious milkshake, we will not help. If we can't help with headache persists after eating, will cause permanent damage to the brain? today with a small series up to solve the puzzle. ["Ice cream headache" will result in "brain residues"?]

Anxious to eat ice cream are predisposed to "ice cream headache"

A day at noon, who lives in Haikou Yi Road home of Alice Ho, into the door, she would open the refrigerator and eat ice cream.

Her side with ice cream, while stuttering get comfortable, and fun. Suddenly, what Sean cover her head squatted on the ground, screaming: headache, headache! soon she was hurt in the ground. Family immediately she sent to sea hospital affiliated hospital. Alice told the doctor that she was eating ice cream, suddenly felt palatal, temporal, stabbing pain around the forehead and eyes and unbearable. She recalled that in the past, once she is eating ice cream, sudden cerebral centerline double sided severe pain.

In Haikou carriers do operator of Miss Hu due to work non-stop phone, feel thirsty, weekdays like little stuttering point ice cream throat.

But each of her eating ice cream, slightly sharp head you will get a shock-like pain.

For what Alice and Miss Hu symptoms of headache, medicine known as the "ice cream headache".

Sea cure hospital Neurology Dr. Wang pointed out, quite a belly-ice cream, because many of the headaches to patients, most of which is 20 years old or so.

What kind of "ice cream headache"?

"Ice cream headache" is a vascular headache, usually in patients with da big mouth to eat frozen food after half a minute to 1 minute pain episodes.

Because of the rapid consumption of frozen foods cause facial muscles, blood vessel contraction can lead emission headache, this headache occur in hot weather is cold stimulus, but also special favor suffering from headache history; another ice cream with a lot of milk, and milk and is a leader in the discovery could lead to migraine food. "Not only to eat cold drinks, also have air conditioning. ”

Episode 10 seconds to 20 seconds a tingling, rarely sustainable 20 minutes.

Wang said, ice-cream headache pain, often located in the central part, sometimes in intracranial temporal, forehead or the back of orbital, characterized by painful tingling or instantly.

Such headache often prone to vascular disorder narcolepsy.

"Ice cream headache" blong, free hand, repeated partial massage alleviates the sudden cold stimulation caused by head blood vessels, muscle contraction, alleviate pain.

If you have a headache so powerful, you can take painkillers as directed by a doctor.

"Ice cream headache" is a self-limiting, even if left untreated it will get better; prevention or difficult, as long as you eat cold drinks slowed eating speed and not directly to swallow to the back of the mouth, it does not appear headache.

TIPS: how to eat cold drinks? forest doctor recommended, cold drink the best in the middle of two dinner eat eating cold drink on an empty stomach, because, on gastric mucosa has stimulated by mucosal vasoconstriction by cold, long term this would make the gastric mucosa ischemia causes gastritis; but have just eaten a meal eaten cold drinks, can cause stomach disorder, affecting digestion.

Gastrointestinal cold stimulus will accelerate the peristalsis, shortened food in the small intestine of the residence time, the impact of nutrient absorption. Do not eat immediately after sweat a cold beverage. Because the sweat, the person's body temperature will rise, pharynx are congested. At this point to eat cold drinks, gastrointestinal and pharyngeal suddenly affected by cold stimuli cause diarrhea or pharyngeal inflammation pain. Sweat is to wipe the sweat, drink warm tea, then eat cold drinks. Ice cream headache hurt your brain?

First, let's understand one thing.

"This situation is called the ' ice cream headache '," Massa called Isaac eye ear Hospital of sinus surgery doctor Stacey Gray explained. "This is a very professional and technical terms. "Although no proof of relevant literature, but quickly take milkshake may does not reduce the temperature of the brain. In addition, Gray also said that this temporary pain without causing any harm because it simply doesn't matter, and brain.

About ice-cream headache, there are two camps in the industry.

A class is considered drink frozen your sinuses of air, causing your forehead nearby nasal vasoconstriction, producing a sensation similar to migraine. Another view is that contact to the mouth of the trigeminal nerve endings, produces a "painful" signals, and communicated to the face.

Gray envisaged a simple experiment, able to solve this problem once and for all, but this study has not been United States national institutes of health grant, has not carried out.

"You can through injection Fagerland due to blocking nerve, and then freeze it, if the feeling is still there, and the circulatory system," she explained. "It looks like nobody is interested. ”

Even if frozen beverage can put your brain lowered a few degrees, that's not a big thing.

Including John Hopkinson Hospital of Rafael Tamargo, many surgeons, often in the appropriate 98.6 ~ 100.4 Fahrenheit brain directly to 64 ° f. "Such a thing occurs frequently, especially to do such vascular aneurysms correction surgery, in order to stop the cycle of an area, often to the brain cooling to ensure security," he said. When the brain is reduced to 68 degrees Fahrenheit, its metabolic and EEG activity will fall to the normal 15%; some surgeons to better effect will be reduced to 64 ° f.

"This time, even in patients without anesthesia, the temperatures are not interactive capabilities, can't be perceived stimulation and generate response," Tam

Argo went on to say. "But once you get your brain temperature rise, it will stop immediately and return to the State. Absolutely no harm. "So no matter what your brain has not been frozen, as long as you can endure it, while eating!

What strange headache occurring around you?

Lack of water-based headache

Summer temperatures often higher than human body temperature, and thus more sweat evaporation or, if not timely replenishment of water, the body will be prone to dehydration.

Human body dehydration, CSF is reduced, the skull and brain space will increase, when the position changes, especially when standing, brain tissue due to mild "sinking" or "shock" that makes the brain's nerve and vascular headaches by traction and symptoms.

Prescription

This occurs as a result of dehydration, the headache can enter a certain amount of saline solution to eliminate or minimize dehydration.

While patients should stay in bed, pillow head low. To prevent this type of headache is critical to replenish moisture. Summer prone diarrhoeal, diarrhea to prevent dehydration. Otherwise also prone to water shortages.

Zhu Xia headache

Some people arrive in the summer, especially in the early summer of sudden rise of temperature and temperature of more than 37 ° c in summer time, headaches and accompanied by loss of appetite, low fever and malaise.

After the start of autumn is cool that the dead. Such headache called zhu Xia headache is caused by disorders of autonomic nervous system, mostly in the weak, those who lack of qi and blood.

Prescription

Prevention of zhu Xia headache mainly pay attention to the environment temperature, the guarantee of the sleep time, catering mainly to light, eat more vegetables and fruits.

Migraine

Also known as the vascular headache migraine.

Due to intracranial extracranial arterial paroxysmal function disorders occur in the head pain. Pain can be a single-sided or double-sided, pain attack with pallor, nausea, vomiting and other vegetative nerve dysfunction symptoms. Some patients with headache occur before 30 minutes there are visual symptoms, i.e. Flash illusion, if there is a flashing dark dots or stars of the "eyes".

Prescription

To reduce the incidence of migraine, summer, we must pay particular attention to adequate rest, sleep, avoiding anxiety and tension.

The study found that the majority of migraine patients brain magnesium content is low, therefore, can be more food containing magnesium-rich vegetables and fruits.

Magnesium containing more food with millet, buckwheat flour, soya beans, broad beans, peas, mushrooms, laver, Laurel, the peaches, walnuts, peanuts, etc.

Wound summer headache

Hot summer weather, people crave cool to the temperature of air conditioning was very low, indoor and outdoor temperature difference is too big, one out of the House could not adapt to the effects of summer back easy body; some people more than in the outside air temperature of 35 ° c, bare to the waist, spine, and back through the dew straps shirt, skin absorption from the outside world will heat, heat is not easy.

Results appear in the summer due to headache, high fever, weakness, fatigue, sweating more than upset thirsty, flustered palpitation, etc.

Prescription

Preventive measures mainly heatstroke prevention properly, indoor ventilation, cooling by methods such as, of course, air conditioning, fan, etc. should not be direct blowing out to with Sun umbrella, attention to drink more water, because when the ambient temperature of more than 35 ° c, it is only through sweat thermal way to cool down.

Sleep headache

Summer daylight hours are long, muggy weather tends to affect people's sleep and rest, lead to lack of sleep, the brain will easily displaced keeps head swelling caused by headache, dizziness, mental deficiency, less gas lazy limbs.

Prescription

Preventive measures are primarily ensure sleep time, if the ambient temperature is too high and the impact of sleep, reduce the temperature should be appropriate to facilitate sleep, but air conditioning temperature too low, sleep is generally to 26 ° c, 27 ° c should be not less than 24 degrees centigrade.

There should be time for a NAP at noon, so that you can improve the efficiency of learning, work, the body's resistance is strengthened.

It is worth noting that whenever the headache attack, many people choose to "can help you" negative attitude, it is not desirable.

Headache is often one of the many diseases dangerous signal, if not timely treatment may even be life-threatening, and not to that effect.

To prevent headaches, summer temperature is especially arranged for a regular daily routine; air conditioning room to keep the air fresh, often ventilated ventilated; at the same time to avoid the high temperature, glare and noise.

Once the headache should be changed to a cool, quiet environment, can also be washed in a hot bath, and at the same time, under the guidance of the doctor to take some analgesics drugs.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)