crushed ice

[icebread]

i had one of those crushed ice drinks I took a big gulp and a pain in my chest started and was the worst pain i think i ever had.Im sure It was the ice that caused it but i wondered wot it was that the ice had done to cause the pain? m.57years. Thank you for your time.

[grandadgardener]

I would suggest that you call a paramedic...and quite quickly.

[Buenchico]

Read the section headed 'In the esophagus' in this Wikipedia article about peristalsis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristalsis

That shows what's meant to happen when you swallow something. However this 1981 study (by Meyer & Castell) found that the muscular 'waves' in your oesophagus, which should push food and liquids along it, can be brought to a halt when you swallow cold liquids, resulting in pain:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7288992

Chris