[gcruse]

remember the last time you rubbed your eye and about five to ten minutes later it was seeping and maybe stinging - GERMS baby

Well, no. Germs don't burn your eyes, neither do they make them water, certainly not in a timespan of minutes. What you are feeling after you rub your eyes is the salt in the perspiration you have transferred from around your eyes and from your hands into your eyes.

[_Jim]

What you are feeling after you rub your eyes is the salt in the perspiration

... yet another good reason to 'wash your hands' at regular intervals ... (and ONE wonders what provides the living environment for 'germs' on one's hands. Now we also have a better idea of that.)

[_Jim]

What you are feeling after you rub your eyes is the salt in the perspiration

I don't think this ENTIRELY accounts for that either. I'VE GOTTEN sweat in my own eye before and the effect is *not* quite the same as the delayed effects (et al) from 'rubbing one's eyes' ...