Pretty much every time I cry, my nose gets super runny and my throat gets slimy. Why is that?

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There’s a visible hole on the inside of your lower eye lid which drains excess tears into the sinuses:

There’s A Little Hole In Your Eyelid That You Probably Never Noticed. What’s It For?

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Your tear duct drains into your nasal cavity.

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And so do your ears, via the Eustachian tubes! They drain to your throat, I don’t know how close the eye/ear drains are to each other.

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Your sinuses are all connected up in your noggin.

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Crying is when your head releases liquid.

It’s not an eye thing; it’s a head thing.

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