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Crying is one of the very first things we do in our lives, and sometimes it is one of the last. Everybody cries, but how much do we really know about it? Come along with Tidbits as we shed a few tears! FACTS ABOUT TEARS • If you try to take a picture with a camera lens that’s warped, you won’t get a clear shot. If you’re looking through eyeglasses lenses that are lumpy, you won’t see clearly. The cornea of the eye has a bumpy surface. Tears smooth the surface, allowing us to see clearly. Tears also provide lubrication, without which we’d be unable to move the eyes in their sockets. • The cornea is the only tissue in the human body that doesn’t contain blood vessels. The cornea must remain clear in order to refract light correctly. If blood vessels were present, they would interfere with sight. One of the main purposes of blood is to deliver oxygen to tissues, but the cornea absorbs oxygen directly from the atmosphere. • The eyeball contains an entire plumbing system devoted to both producing and draining away tears. Tears serve several functions. They control infectious agents and detoxify the eye; they regulate the pH of the eyeball; and they promote chemical reactions, wash out irritants, and keep the cornea moist and nourished. • There are three different types of tears. First (continued on next page)

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CRYING (cont’d) are basal tears, which constantly bathe the eyeballs in fluid, keeping them moist and lubricated. Second is the reflex or irritant tears, produced when cutting onions or encountering allergens. Third are psychic or emotional tears, triggered by emotional states. Each of the three types of tears contains different concentrations of hormones, proteins, and chemicals. • The basal tears that continuously bathe the eyes are made of three layers in a sort of “fluid sandwich” with a mucous-laden layer next to the cornea; a fluid middle layer; and an outer layer containing oils that prevent the tears from evaporating too quickly. The water layer is the thickest and contains electrolytes (such as sodium and potassium), proteins (mostly enzymes), glucose, and other substances. • Basal tears are produced by a series of about 20 small tear ducts called lacrimal glands. Another gland secretes a type of mucous called mucin that hugs the cornea. A set of 46 glands in the eyelids excrete oily lipids that prevent evaporation. Basal tears kill bacteria because they contain lysozyme, a fluid that can kill 90 to 95 percent of all bacteria. • The eye’s “drain pipe” is called the puncta, located in the corners of the eyes next to the nose, draining directly into the nasal cavity, which is why your nose runs when you cry. When tears are produced faster than they can be drained through the puncta, they spill over the eyelids and run down the cheeks. • When crying begins, blood flow increases to the eyeball, turning the eyes red. This causes the eye muscles to contract in order to protect the veins and arteries from increased pressure. The contracted muscles squeeze the tear ducts, forcing fluid out, which cools the overheated eyeballs down. • So why do eyes get puffy after crying? Emotional tears are more watery and less salty than basic tears and the tissue in your eye. Through the process of osmosis, the water moves into the saltier ocular tissues, which makes them swell up. • Emotional weeping triggers the “fight or (continued on next page)

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flight” response. Breathing accelerates and blood flow increases. The opening in the throat called the glottis, which allows air from the larDEAR LIZ: Thank you for raising awareness about this ynx to the lungs, opens wide to facilitate greater issue. As dedicated owners search for the best diets air flow and easier breathing. This is why you to feed their dogs, they are increasingly feeding them often feel as if you have a lump in your throat “exotic” diets (kangaroo meat and chickpeas, cited when you cry. Swallowing forces the glottis to in a 2018 Tufts report) or buying dog foods labeled close, fighting against the reflex that is trying as grain-free. At issue is that some trendy diets, and unfortunately some retail dog foods, lack taurine, an to force the glottis open and straining the throat ingredient in meat that is essential to maintaining a muscles, producing the feeling of a lump. healthy heart in dogs. • When you are crying due to irritations such Taurine deficiency alone is not the only cause behind as onion fumes, you’ll shed about 5 tear drops, the rise in DCM, which is being seen in dog breeds equal to about 100 microliters. But during a where it was previously rare. Researchers are working to find additional causes of DCM, and in the meantime good hard emotional cry, you’ll shed as much recommend that pet owners closely evaluate their as an entire milliliter of tears, amounting to a pets’ diet. Commercial dog foods should have a good third of a fluid ounce. track record of nutritional quality and safety. Home• Not only are emotional tears far greater prepared diets should be supplemented with important in volume, but they also have a 20% higher nutrients; talk to your vet for exact details. Owners should also keep an eye on their dogs for early concentration of protein than irritant tears, as signs of heart disease: coughing, weakness, less ability well as being loaded with hormones such as to exercise, shortness of breath or fainting. Take a dog prolactin. In addition to being self-soothing, with these symptoms straight to the vet. shedding emotional tears releases oxytocin and endorphins. Send your questions or pet care tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc. • Baby boys and baby girls cry at similar rates, but adult women cry more often than adult men. The gap widens beginning between the ages OFF of 13 to 16. It’s been shown that women have up to 60% more of the hormone prolactin in their bloodstream, a hormone released from the pituitary gland in response to stress. Prolactin is also responsible for stimulating lactation of 716-429-7813 or 716-688-2247 (continued on next page) AMHERST BOARDING KENNEL GROOMERS

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nursing mothers. Men, on the other hand, have lower levels of prolactin and higher levels of testosterone, which inhibits crying. • Women cry an average of around 2 to 4 times a month, while men might cry once every other month, with crying defined as anything from moist eyes to sobbing. • The average crying session lasts six minutes for a woman, versus two to four minutes for a man. Crying turns into sobbing in 65% of cases for women, but just 6% for men. • When women cry, tears run down their cheeks about 50% of the time, but when men cry, tears run down the cheeks only 29% of the time, and the rest of the time the eyes just get watery. This is due to the fact that the male puncta, the tear drainage pipe, is larger than the female’s. • A newborn will cry without producing tears. Babies do not produce tears until they are around six weeks old. A typical baby cries between 30 minutes and 3 hours per day. • In one study, scientists videotaped 60 people as they watched sad movies. of those 60 people, 28 cried during the screening, and 32 did not. The researchers found that directly after the movie, those who cried felt sadder than those who didn’t. However, 90 minutes later, those who had let their feelings out felt better than their dry-eyed counterparts. More importantly, they also felt better than they did before watching the movie. BLINKING FACTS • The average person blinks 12 times per minute or about 10,000 blinks per day. You blink on average 4.2 million times a year. • We blink more when we talk but less when we’re reading. Your eyes become tired when you read or stare at a computer because you blink less often and you are not relaxing the eye muscles. • The muscles that control the eyes are the fastest-moving muscles in the body and are also the most active muscles in the body.

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Other Assistance Programs Depending on your dad’s income, needs and location there are other financial assistance programs that may be able to help him like Medicaid, prescription drug assistance, food stamps and energy assistance. To find out what he may be eligible for go to BenefitsCheckUp.org. This is a free, confidential Web tool that contains more than 2,500 programs. Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book.

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• John Bausch was 18 in 1848 when he got a job in an optical shop in Switzerland, grinding lenses for cameras. The following year he moved to Rochester, New York, and opened his own optical shop. At the time, he sold products imported from Europe. Then he decided it would be better if he could manufacture his own lenses. All he needed was a little capital to get started. • His friend Henry Lomb made a $60 financial investment in the business (worth about $1800 today) and they became partners. Lomb handled sales and finance, while Bausch focused on manufacturing of monocles, spectacles, binoculars, magnifying lenses, and opera glasses. • One day Bausch found a discarded piece of (continued in next column)

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Vulcanite rubber. Experimenting, he discovered he could make eyeglass frames from the material. At that time, eyeglasses were made from gold, tortoise shell, or horn. The Vulcanized rubber was far easier to work with and much stronger than any of those materials. It was also cheaper. When the Civil War started in the U.S., the price of gold and horn rose, and the demand for Bausch’s Vulcanite glasses skyrocketed. • In 1870 Bausch invented the first machine to produce spectacles. As scientific research gained momentum, Bausch and Lomb produced microscopes, telescopes, and camera lenses. • Bausch’s son William revolutionized the industry by inventing a new process of making lenses by casting them out of molten glass. Previously, the glass parts for the lenses had to be separated, ground, and polished by hand in a complicated and time-consuming process. (continued in next column)

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• Another of Bausch’s sons, Edward, revolutionized photography by inventing a camera lens patterned after the human iris. • During the two World Wars, the company was asked to provide troops with gunsights, periscopes, telescopes, target finders, and searchlight mirrors. The U.S. government became their biggest customer and the company grew very quickly. By the 1940s, military products represented 70% of their total production. • Because pilots suffered from high-altitude glare, the company produced sunglasses that used a polarized filter to absorb light. They had a large oval frame to shield an aviator’s eyes which needed to repeatedly glance down toward the instrument panel. These glasses were dubbed “Ray Bans” because they ban sun rays. They became enormously popular and are still sold today. • After World War II ended, the cinema indus(continued on next page)

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