Why does your throat close off when you’re upset/crying, making it hard to swallow?
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Maybe slightly off topic, but humans are known to be the only animals to cry (due to distress/being upset, not as an eye-cleaning process), and so far it’s not understood at all why it is so. As mentioned already, the impediment to the ability to swallowing has more to do with muscle tension/stress and less to do with the crying.
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