The Medical Term for an Ice Cream Headache

We heard from Olivia, who lives in Tempe, Arizona, with her husband.

They were both born and raised there, but they have different terms for what happens when you eat ice cream too quickly.

She calls it a brain freeze, and he says he gets a cold headache.

And they’re wondering if there are other regional terms for this.

And indeed, there are other terms for this.

I don’t know, Grant, that there’s anything particularly regional about them,

but you can call it a cold stimulus headache or an ice cream headache.

But my favorite term for this is the medical term, which is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

Oh, I’ve got an idea, Martha.

Ice cream for breakfast.

Then you get an excuse slip from your doctor.

Then you get out of work and then more ice cream.

I love it.

You’re right.

I mean, who’s going to question if you say I have obina palatine ganglion neuralgia?

It sounds like a condition.

And it could be chronic.

You could do it every day.

True.

That sounds like a plan.

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