Do you have a tiny hole in the corner of your eyelid? It has an amazing function!
If you take a close look at your eyes, you will find a very small hole on the bottom of your eyelids. Have you ever wonder what is it for and why it is located in your inner eyelids?
The little hole which is called lacrimal punctum is actually and completely normal. Every human has two lacrimal puncta in each of their eyes. Just like our hair, skin colour and height, this little hole varies in size from one person to another.
While some people can easily spot the hole in their eyelids, some people find it hard to notice the small hole
Lacrimal punctum is part of our eyes’ guttering and drainage system as it functions to drain the tears in our eyes. If your tear duct starts to produce tears as a result of overjoy, sorrow or as simple as when dust gets into your eyes, the lacrimal punctum will drain these tears into lacrimal sac. Lacrimal sac will later transfer your tears through lacrimal duct into your nose.
Therefore, that is why you get runny nose when your eyes get teary
However, if your eyes tend to get watery most of the time, there is a medical procedure to stop the condition.
It involves placing tiny cylinder-shaped plugs into your lacrimal puncta which will keep your eyes from draining so much tears
The procedure is quick, painless and totally reversible!
Equally squeamishly, the drainage system of the lacrimal punctum can sometimes backfire and reverse the flow. That means that it has been known for tears, discharge, air, and even blood to squirt out of these holes. It’s also how some people pull off the rather gross “party trick” of squirting milk out of their eyes.
In fact, a Turkish guy called lker Yilmaz holds a world record for squirting milk from his eye a distance of 279.5 centimeters (9 feet 2 inches). Seriously though, don’t try this at home, it’s a sure-fire way to give yourself a nasty eye infection.
See, who would have thought a tiny hole in your eye could so interesting?
Now, you know how some people can squirt liquid from their eyes!
Source:iflscience.com, en.goodtimes.my
