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The term ice-cream headache has been in use since at least January 31, 1937, contained in a journal entry by Rebecca Timbres published in the 1939 book We Didn't Ask Utopia: A Quaker Family in Soviet Russia. [10] [non-primary source needed] The first published use of the term brain freeze, in the sense of a cold-stimulus headache, was in 1991.
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Pagophagia (from Greek: pagos, frost/ice, + phagÅ, to eat [1]) is the compulsive consumption of ice or iced drinks. [2] It is a form of the disorder known as pica, which in Latin refers to a magpie that eats everything indiscriminately. [3]
Further, another 2023 study of adolescents listed eating ice as a symptom of eating disoders. So, which comes first: iron deficiency anemia or pica with ice cravings? Like the chicken-egg question ...
Uncontrolled cooling, however, can result in freeze burns to the skin. According to controlled laboratory experiments, the gas from a typical deodorant spray can reduce skin temperature by up to sixty degrees Celsius. [2] The form of injury is freezing of the skin, a type of frostbite.
A New Jersey doctor thinks he might have the next miracle trick to melt away those stubborn pounds - literally. Dr. Brian Weiner, a gastroenterologist, says his Ice Diet will help you burn more ...
Cold urticaria (essentially meaning cold hives) is a disorder in which large red welts called hives (urticaria) form on the skin after exposure to a cold stimulus. [1] The hives are usually itchy and often the hands, feet and other parts of the body will become itchy and swollen as well.
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