Virtually all patients encounter streams of salty water coursing down their cheeks early in life and don’t realise they have more than one type of tears. More widely recognised, reflex tears serve as a natural emergency eyewash, however, these are very different to the structured basal tears that maintain vision and ocular surface protection.
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