Without a shadow of a doubt , one of the most popular scientific whodunit of 2015 , a question that gazillion of hoi polloi from all walks of life were desperate to suffice , was : Why are catsso afraid of cucumber ? Although this motion was never definitively answered , and the debate still rages online , another question has arisen that threatens to take itsfelinecrown . So , ladies and gentleman of the WWW , is it dangerous to give cats brain freeze ?

As ever , this motion arose from the act of maverick darling owners , recorded for the delight of the denizens of the Internet . Whether it ’s ingesting a Slurpee or drub too much ice rink cream , cat of all sort seem to have the same assailable - jawed , wide-cut - eyed reaction to run through a little too much too quickly .

mirror what occur during the peak of the cat - cucumber wars , several are wondering if it ’s dangerous to get small amounts of pain to theirfluffy feline companion – in this case , forcible nuisance rather of psychological trauma . Whereas with the cuke , many claimed that the small shock of a stealthy vegetable suddenly look was no more frightening that when cats make for fighting and ambuscade each other . But what about brain freeze ?

A classic example of the genre . Napo TVvia YouTube

“ It ’s pretty unhealthful for the qat , ” Amy Cousino , vet and owner of the Cat ’s Meow Cat Clinic in Sebastian , Florida , told theWashington Post . “ Cats have very similar nervous tract [ to humans ] . ”

Conversely , Eric Doughtery , another veterinarian and aesculapian director for The Cat Practice in New York , notes that “ there has n’t been much research on feline brain freeze , ” bestow that he “ ca n’t imagine that [ brain freeze ] would be unlike in cats ” than it is to mankind . His chief concern is that lactose illiberal cats may live prolific looseness of the bowels if they are fed too many sweet-smelling , dairy farm - free-base treats .

So what exactly is brain freeze – and is it harmful to humanity , or guy ?

Brain freeze is a unremarkably experienced phenomenon , primarily thanks to the overriding human urge to consume as much luscious ice cream as physically potential . Technically known by the cacophonous termsphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia , it does n’t literally involve the passage of icy particles up into your brain , because that in all chance would be as calamitous as it is physiologically ludicrous .

When you take in ice ointment or anything fairly cold , it lowers the temperature of cardinal rip vessels near the back of your throat . for conserve their heat , these vessels chop-chop contract , before slowly dilating again when the surrounding temperature increases . This sudden effort pulls on the tissue paper fence in these nerves , including the trigeminal nerve , a bombastic structure that is creditworthy for sensation in the face .

This nerve often can not distinguish the placement of the original infliction trigger , and so you often feel pain in your read/write head not necessarily from where it ’s being inflicted . So that is why you incline to feel the gist of brain frost in your forehead , not the back of your throat . It seems that cat also share this mechanism , as richly demonstrated by the giggle - worthy videos proliferate across the Web right this very moment .

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