- Because everyone needs to know more about their bodies as humans.
Tear fun facts are things we all need to know about ourselves. Do you know these fun facts about tears?
- Crying is seen by some researchers as a social signal for others that you need help whether because you’re in pain or sad, in distress or dealing with extreme emotion. The support from others is what helps you during these times.
- Your nasal passages and eyes are connected.
- Sleep-crying or waking up crying can happen with nightmares, night terrors, grief, depression, stress and anxiety, chronic pain, or even allergies.
- Sleep-crying is a real thing and people of all ages can cry while they’re sleeping. Did you know this about tear fun facts?
- There are also additional proteins and hormones in emotional tears that aren’t otherwise found in other types of tears. They may have relaxing and pain-relieving effects, helping to regulate the body.
- Uncontrollable tears can be caused by the condition pseudobulbar affect (PBA.) The condition is characterized by episodes of sudden and uncontrollable crying or laughing. (And in this case the crying usually turns into manic laughing.)
- If you’re pretending to cry, someone may say that you have “crocodile tears.”
- Your nose runs when you cry because many tears worth of crying mix with the mucus in your nose.
- A study from 2011 found that others can smell our tears even though they’re technically odorless.
- Emotions have nothing to do with animal tears. They make tears to lubricate and protect their eyes. They may also shed tears when exposed to irritants or injury.
- Tears help keep your eyes smooth and clear and help protect you against infection.
- Your tear ducts are also called nasolacrimal ducts. Did you know this very scientific thing regarding tear fun facts?
- There are well-documented benefits of crying including detoxification, self-soothing, can dull pain, can improve your mood, calls for support, helps through grief and can help regulate your emotional balance.
- Emotional tears contain prolactin, the hormone that promotes the production of breast milk. (Women have 60% more prolactin than men.)
- A 2012 study looked into men’s testosterone levels in regards to simulated baby tears and those who had effective nurturing responses had a drop in testosterone and those who didn’t experienced a rise in testosterone.
- Emotional tears are so far thought (and currently being researched) to be influenced by social, biological and psychological factors.
- Blocked tear ducts can happen for babies born with or developing, so they may produce tears but not all the way or maybe not from both eyes.
- Men have smaller tear ducts than women.
- When it comes to tears, women cry more than men do.
- Even though tears come out of your eyes, they’re actually meant to drain down your nose and throat. Did you know this tears fun fact?
- A 2007 study on crocodiles did say they may actually cry when they eat. (They actually studied caimans and alligators, as they are closely related to them, and when fed, the animals actually shed tears. Though this is true, the reasoning behind the tears isn’t fully understood.
- Newborn babies don’t made any tears when they cry because their lacrimal
glands aren’t fully developed, this could last for up to a full month of life. - There’s a myth that “crocodiles cry when eating humans, which was coined from the book “The Voyage and Travel of Sir John Mandeville,” published in 1400.”
- Pseudobulbar affect or PBA usually affects people with specific neurological conditions or injuries that alter how the brain controls emotion. (These can be stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis.)
- With a lack of tears, your eyes are susceptible to injuries like corneal abrasion, eye infection, corneal ulcer and vision disturbances.
Have you ever seen animals “cry?” Let me know what you think of these tear fun facts in the comments!