Facts about crying

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Tear are salty fluid that constitutes of water, mucus, protein and oil. Tears are released from the lacrimal glands on the outer and upper regions of our eyes, owing to various factors and are known as emotional or reflexive tears according to its origin. Basal tears are such tears that remains omnipresent in our eyes and helps our eyes from not drying out completely. It has been recorded that human beings produces as much as 5 to 10 ounces of basal tears every day.

Here are some of the most interesting facts about tears and crying:

  • According to Dr. Ad Vingerhoets who is an eminent professor of Clinical Psychology, it has been observed that wealthy women of the Western economies, cries more than women who has lesser rights and are from poorer nations in the world.

  • Generally if the tears, drops first from the right eye of a person, it falls because of happiness, while if it rolls down from the left eye, it’s for pain.

  • Emotional tears have different chemical attributes, than tears those that are evoked by irritants in the eye.

  • Although men cries less than women in the society, but it has been nevertheless observed that men tend to cry more than women as they grow older by their age.

  • It is believed that by crying one can actually feel emotionally and physically better, which helps the body to relieve elevated stress. Some scientists has even proved that emotional crying does helps in getting rid of the toxins and waste products from the body.

  • In Japan people there are some people who has taken the notion of ‘œa good cry’ to the level next. People of such belief, holds crying clubs where they watch sad television shows and sad movies and read tear inducing books to keep them healthy and stress-free in their day to day life.

  • It has been observed that all babies do cry from 1 to 3 hours every day.

  • Several researches have shown that people those who have more empathy gene in them cry more frequently as they can detect and relate to the sufferings of others.

  • It has been widely noticed that the ducts that drains the tears from our eyes often gets blocked due to infection, inflammation, injury, cysts, tumors or even with age. When such incidents happen, such symptoms, causes excessive tearing and watery eyes. Blockage in the tear ducts also increases the risk of eye inflammation and eye infection if not treated in due course of time.

  • There is certain neurological condition called PLC (Pathological laughter and crying) which makes people cry and laugh at the same time inappropriately at odd moments of time. PLC generally happens to patients those who has Alzheimer’s disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Stroke and ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

  • More like linguistic differences, according to the science of weeping, it has been observed that there is a distinct melody to the ways that people cries in different cultures all across the globe.

  • Although most of the time tears from the lacrimal glands flows through the eyes, but if one cries in abundance, the tears often overflows the nasal cavity and starts running out of the nose.

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