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Feb. 1, 2000 - Tuesday
Harry's tears from over the weekend may not have been true tears. His mother's reading, along with a call to his doctor, suggests that Harry may have a blocked tear duct in his right eye - the only eye that seems to have had tears. Apparently this is a very common, minor, and temporary developmental malady of infants and one that will likely go away on its own in a fairly short period of time. The doctor suggested that wiping the eye with a damp cloth or swab, from outside to inside toward the nose, might assist its recovery, but it is not something to be alarmed by at this time.

How a "blocked" tear duct could yield what seems like tears is a bit of a puzzle for me, but Harry's mother explains that tear ducts are designed to remove tear, or eye mositurizing, liquid from the entire eye. If a tear duct is blocked, the tear liquid simply flows out the side of the eye, appeaing as constant crying.


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