Eye rubbing is a common, often involuntary response to stimuli such as stress and fatigue as well as dermatologic and ophthalmologic conditions that cause irritation or itchiness.While occasional eye rubbing is fundamentally harmless, repeated, intense rubbing can have severe consequences, well known by ophthalmologists but ignored by many people.“While parents have forever told their children not to touch their eyes, ‘don’t rub your eyes, that’s not good for you’, they don’t fully know the extent of the damage that this might cause,” Bibiana Jin Reiser, MD, MBA, pediatric cornea specialist
