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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; Enigo54

Thank you. Good.

I can discard another “My elders told me” piece of misinformation from 50 years ago. Ice water is OK.


999 posted on 02/09/2019 7:48:25 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission (Car 54 where are you!)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission; Cletus.D.Yokel

Regarding the cold water discussion:
On about 4 occasions in my life, I have experienced sharp pain in my esophagus following the swallowing of ice-cold water on a very, very hot day. One of my sisters has reported same. Perhaps we are unusual.

The pain is very, very sharp but, mercifully, brief. I have interpreted it to be the result of very quick muscle contraction in response to the cold added to a very warm area. Analogous to what we called an “ice cream headache” when I was a kid. Young people now call it a “brain freeze”.

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1,146 posted on 02/10/2019 7:23:06 AM PST by Bigg Red (MAGA)
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