Why does hot and spicy food make your nose run?

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As in title.

NB- I used the search bar beforehand, and despite this having been asked a few times, albeit in quite different ways, most had been ignored/had half-hearted responses.

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Because one usually sweats when they eat spicy foods and sometimes tear up (this is obviously your body trying to cool *you* off even though its localized in the gob)

For the same reason you get a runny nose when you cry, there’s a teeny tiny little hole on your lower eyelids (closer to one’s nose)- these are connected to your nostrils (nose?) and it’s where the tears go either from crying out of sadness or too much spicy which leads to runny noses

Bill Nye has a [cool](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) (https://youtu.be/zRqPAzXhJZ0) on this

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