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What causes the pain of a headache?

What is actually happening in the brain to cause the discomfort of a headache?

Also what causes "brain freeze" where you drink or eat something cold like ice cream, and it goes straight to your head - or is that just me.lol

Public Comments

1. Most headaches are from De-hydration so drink more
fluids.
Brain-freeze- Self-Explanatory

2. you get headache when you eat something cold like ice cream when you have holes in your teeth.....

3. Blood vesels arent dialating the way the should

4. The tightening and relaxing of blood vessels in your head can be a cause(that is what happens in brain freeze, also). There are many causes of headaches, and some are still undetermined.

5. This site will tell you, exactly what you want to know, about different types of headaches and what their known causes are!
http://www.healthsquare.com/headaches4.htm
This site tells you, what causes Brain Freeze!
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-causes-brain-freeze.htm

6. I dont know. try googling it and your find out.