I wanted to ask about the science behind the feeling you get when you drink a cold liquid too quickly. You feel this rush of "coldness" up to your brain, and you simply must stop drinking until the "coldness" goes away. And is there even an official name for this?

I wanted to ask about the science behind the feeling you get when you drink a cold liquid too quickly. You feel this rush of "coldness" up to your brain, and you simply must stop drinking until the "coldness" goes away. And is there even an official name for this?

 

I believe the "technical" name is "ice cream headache"

 

Here's an article about it:

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/314/7091/1364

We pretty adamantly call it "brain-freeze"

Googling "brain-freeze":

 

-7-Eleven registered the term "brainfreeze" in 1994 to communicate the painful joy of drinking a frozen Slurpee beverage.

 

-Brainfreeze is also known as an "Ice Cream Headache", and "Frozen Brain Syndrome"

 

Nice. Thanks guys ^^;