Nowadays, it is difficult for people to get rid of the feeling of fatigue in the eyes after watching the electronic screen for a long time.
At this time, many people like to drop a few drops of eye drops to relieve
But you find that you often have a sore throat during the process of instilling eye drops
How is this going? Did the eyedrops drip into the throat? Can it be avoided?
Next, let’s “enter” your eyes and find out!
Speaking of which, you are staring at the screen of your mobile phone, how long has it been since you put down your mobile phone? Look at you, look at the computer when you are at work, and look at the mobile phone when you are free, can your eyes bear it?
At this time, in order to relieve eye fatigue, in addition to looking into the distance, you can also choose to use eye drops to solve it. You must have had this experience. When you put eye drops, your throat is always bitter.
What’s going on? Drop eye drops, but the pain is in the throat. Could it be possible that the eye drops dripped into the throat?
Come, come, let us walk into your eyes together. There is a small hole in the inner corner of your lower eyelid, which is the punctum.
From the lacrimal point, there is a secret passage, which is called the nasolacrimal duct. It is the channel that connects the eyes and the nasal cavity and is part of the tear duct. Think
back carefully, when you cried, is it a two-pronged approach to tears and snot? In fact, when you cry, in addition to the part that flows out of the eye socket, a small part of the tears will flow into the lacrimal punctum, then run down the nasolacrimal duct, and eventually flow into the nasal cavity. So, your tears come out with your nasal mucus.
Well, the same is true for eye drops, which also enter the nasal cavity through the nasolacrimal duct like tears.
Since most people are accustomed to holding their heads up, after the eye drops reach the nasal cavity, they do not go down, and start another journey backwards.
This time, the eye drops are behind the inferior turbinate in the nasal cavity, all the way to the nasopharynx, and into your throat. Isn’t this the equivalent of taking a sip of eye drops~ Of course I feel bitter in my throat.
In fact, this result is caused by the posture of your eye drops. Next, learn how to properly drop eye drops.
1. Wash your hands, be sure to keep your hands clean and hygienic to avoid bringing bacteria into your eyes;
2. Hold the eye drops in one hand and gently pull down the eyelid with the other hand to expose the conjunctival sac. Drop eye drops into the conjunctival sac, which not only protects the pupil from irritation, but also prevents side leakage.
3. Close your eyes and turn your eyes gently to distribute the eye drops evenly, so that the eye drops will not all enter the nasolacrimal duct. You can also press the inner corner of the eye with your fingers to block the entrance, double insurance!
In this way, you can effectively reduce the bitterness of eye drops!
Brief summary: There is a small hole in the inner corner of our eye, the punctum. There is a passage from here to the nasal cavity, which is the nasolacrimal duct. The nasolacrimal duct is the passage that connects the eyes and the nasal cavity and is part of the tear duct. Entering the nasal cavity, you will see the lower nasal passage, the nasopharynx, and the throat. The nasal cavity and the oral cavity, and the nasal cavity and the throat are all connected.
When the eye drops are dropped into the eye, it will flow down the tear duct through the small hole in the corner of the eye all the way to the throat. It is normal for you to feel a sore throat, which means that your nasolacrimal duct is unobstructed, so don’t worry too much about it.
But then again, if you master the correct posture of eye drops, you won’t experience bitterness easily~
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