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Sometimes medicine dropped into the eyes come into the nose and throat.Why?

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When you put medicine on the eye, it mixes with the tears, and this drains into the nose through the lacrimal (tear) system in the corner of the eye near the nose. That's why you sometimes taste drops in your nose and throat when you take them.

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