What happens if the cold virus goes in through your left nostril?

WTH? This can’t be serious. It doesn’t matter which nostril, and if it’s the same cold virus you only catch it once.

@JLeslie Yes, the same thing with too much UV rays causing cancer, No exposed left arm exposure, right arm exposure business.

@flo No, it’s not the same at all.

Do you really think sun exposure doesn’t raise the chances of skin cancer? Come on now.

@JLeslie You get skin cancer regardless of which side (left or right part and side) of the body is exposed to the sun more.

You get skin cancer where the skin damage is. If the sun shines more on the left side you’re more likely to get cancer there. If the sun shines on your face, but you always are clothed neck to toe, you are most likely to get skin cancer in your face.

Melanoma seems to be more tricky, but for the other cancers it holds true.

The only thing that comes to mind regarding skin cancer on left vs. right arm is if someone typically drives with their arm resting on the top of the rolled down window (as many people are inclined to do without really thinking about it) then it would make sense that the left arm would be more likely to develop skin cancer than the right due to greater exposure to the sun. And if the person does a greater than average amount of driving, then there would be a greater degree of exposure.

This is assuming that the person doesn’t bother with sunscreen and lives in the US. if living in countries where they drive on the right, then reverse it.

But the whole thing about right or left nostril isn’t making much sense to me. What’s the point they’re trying to make?

It’s said that the bad UV rays, UVA, go through glass. Window tint blocks some of it, but window tint is better at blocking UVB.

Most people who are NOT in the habit of putting their hands always at 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock generally drive with the driver’s window DOWN and arm resting upon it (as I mentioned in my example) so there is no glass to block or not-block anything.

I see this all the time. Unless I have my window rolled down, it’s not really comfortable in anything but the standard 10 and 2 position. There just isn’t enough room otherwise.

@Buttonstc I never thought of it in terms of comfort the way you describe. For me it’s fresh air vs. noise and hairdo a lot of the time. For my husband and me road noise on the highway is usually a big deterrent. I’m not talking about horns honking, I mean simple road noise. Local driving is a different thing.

Funny, I’m just thinking about how I worry about burn on top of my head when the too us down or the sun roof open. I figure my first skin cancer will be where my hair part is. Not mostly from driving, but just from being outside.

I part my hair on the left by the way. LOL.

Thank you.

Here is something of interest, maybe.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=breast+cancer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb&gws_rd=cr&ei=qlcxVrjvM8Gr-AGNu6uQBA#channel=fflb&q=breast+cancer+moles+left+arm+right+arm+
or same page:
http://tinyurl.com/KindleWireless

@JLeslie and @Buttonstc It is not like there is such a thing as left arm skin cancer vs right arm skin cancer or bold spot skin cancer etc. , ...and one better or worse than the other. Cancer is cancer, just like catching a cold is catching a cold regardless of which nostril the cold virus went in, it seems to me.

I’m not supposed to expose myself to all the known causes of cancer, as much as possible, that’s all.

I hope people won’t go around thinking Oh thank god, I don’t have any mole so I’m okay to do riskier things than my friend who has tons of them….

@flo You really don’t get it do you? The skin cancer is more likely where the sun shines. Let’s say every day of my life when I’m outside I am covered from neck to toe, and I live in a sunny place, and have had more than several burns over my lifetime on my nose and my face all over. My face is almost always very tan. With this scenario I am more likely to get skin cancer in my face, than on other parts of my body.

@JLeslie Bye.

Bye why? Do you agree with what I wrote. I’m trying to explain. It isn’t left arm cancer, it’s skin cancer on the left arm. See the difference?