The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
any contact also further increases the transmission of cold and flu. Not just from stuff emitted from the nasal passages and from the mouth when people sneeze and cough, but also when people wipe their eyes, even when people wipe their skin because oftentimes they have cold or flu virus on their skin.
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we are pretty much wired to contact our own face with our own hands at the level of our eyes nose and upper lip and around the eyes very shortly after we touch somebody else's skin and if you are mindful of it you can actually avoid bringing colds or flu to your face
although touching other regions of your body can also pass the cold virus into you for instance the mouth and lips but that's actually far less common
one of the primary entry points of it getting inside your body is via the Eyes by wiping that cold virus on your eyes