When You Cry What Happens to Your Eyes?

When you blink, the eyelid spreads the tears around your eye and mucus helps the tears stick to the eyeball. Any tears left over drain through a special drainage system that goes through to your nose. When we cry – and I hope you don't cry too often – we make more tears than the eye can hold.

Is it healthy for your eyes to cry?

Continuous tears lubricate your eyes and help protect them from infection. Emotional tears may have many health benefits. Whereas continuous tears contain 98 percent water, emotional tears contain stress hormones and other toxins.

What falls from your eyes when you cry?

The part of the brain that switches on the “tear fountain” receives signals from the part of your brain that controls your emotions. When this happens, the eye can produce more than half a cup of tears in minutes. This is way too much for the eye to hold and our drainage system goes to work.