When somebody gets an 'electric shock', what actually happens to his body?
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I used to work for a wire company and it sometimes ran the wire through a part of the machine called the Hi Pot test it would run 10,000 volts through the wire and if it burned through the insulation than the machine would stop and you would cut the defected wire away and retired the machine but I would get shocked every time the hi-pot machine would kick off.  It made my mussels contract abit and made me jump.  Some times when I didn't have money for coffee I would stick my finger in the hipot to get a zap to wake up. It hurt a little but it woke me up just the same.  Any how it isn't the Volts that kill you it is the Amps.  The Higher the Amps the greater the current is.  Like you could get killed with only 12 volts if the amps are high.  consider Water the smaller the hole the faster the water goes because of pressure.  Well Amps are like that.  The Higher the Amp the greater the pressure.
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The skin might be the answer they want.\n\nWhen we face a sudden emergency, we produce adrenaline.  This reduces blood flow to skin (which goes white) and directs extra blood to muscles, for fight / flight reactions.  The skin is OK like that, for ages.\n\nWe also reduce blood flow to skin, to reduce heat loss in cold conditions.  It is not sacrificed; if the conditions in the skin become too bad, it is flushed by fresh blood.
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if you get electrocuted by 240 v. you will definetly be severely burned internally. and dying is also quite likely.\nif you do live, then yes your brain might not function quite the same.\n\nbe careful around live wires.
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The brain dies, and is no longer telling the body what to do, muscles relax and that is what causes defication. \n\nThis can also happen during epileptic fit or unconciousness (though less than common) where the brain is either under extreme stress from lack of oxygen or just in shock from whatever is happening to it. The body can react this way from shock also.
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Psychological\nThe perception of electric shock can be different depending on the voltage, duration, current, path taken, etc. Current entering the hand has a threshold of perception of about 5 to 10 milliamperes (mA) for DC and about 1 to 10 mA for AC at 60 Hz.\n\nPhysiological\nBurns: Tissue heating due to resistance can cause extensive and deep burns. High-voltage (> 500 to 1000 V) shocks tend to cause internal burns due to the large energy (which is proportional to the square of the voltage) available from the source. Damage due to current is through tissue heating.\n\nVentricular fibrillation: A low-voltage (110 to 220 V), 60-Hz AC current traveling through the chest for a fraction of a second may induce ventricular fibrillation at currents as low as 60mA. With DC, 300 to 500 mA is required. If the current has a direct pathway to the heart (eg, via a cardiac catheter or other electrodes), a much lower current of less than 1 mA, (AC or DC) can cause fibrillation. Fibrillations are usually lethal because all the heart muscle cells move independently. Above 200mA, muscle contractions are so strong that the heart muscles cannot move at all.\n\nNeurological effects: Current can cause interference with nervous control, especially over the heart and lungs. When the current path is through the head, it appears that, with sufficient current, loss of consciousness almost always occurs swiftly. (This is borne out by some limited self-experimentation by early designers of the electric chair. and by research from the field of animal husbandry, where electric stunning has been extensively studied).\n\nThe recommended first aid for someone who had received a severe electrical shock has three major components:\n1) Call for help \n2) Make sure the victim is no longer in contact with the electrical current source. Turn off all power if this can be done quickly. \n3) Check for breathing and heart beat and apply cardiopulmonary resuscitation, if necessary \n\n[Also] "the human body is not much of a resistor. Rather, it is a fairly good conductor of electricity because the fluids in our bodies are solutions of salts and ions which readily enable electricity to flow."\n\nMore information and details can be found in the links below.
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Acute fright can cause death due to cardiac arrest.(the heart stops beating suddenly.)unless revived immediately, the person won't survive.there are instances of a person's hair turning white and sudden onset of insanity due to fright.
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No, however the patient may not be! It's not always wise to take young children to visit people who are in the middle of treatment as it may cause a lower imune system, and am sorry to say kids carry all sorts of beastly germs.\n\nHowever, have no idea what this electric shock treatment is?
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It is very unlikey that you would survive the current associated with that sort of electroporation, as it would be quite substantial to effect you in the same way it effects the cells used to generate hybridomas. For example, people struck by lightning sometimes display some symptoms you might expect from a minor electroporation effect. In short, the current necessary to have the effect would likely hurt you in many ways, like stopping your heart, than the electroporation would.
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a friend of mine was wrongly committed to an institution. he told me that the electric shock therapy that he received would render him unable to talk, he could hardly move afterwards, they woke him up every morning at 5 and strapped him to a chair and shocked him. His family would come to visit in the afternoon, he would sit in a chair unable to talk to them, unable to sit up straight, they would ask the doctors what was wrong with him, the doctor would shake his head, and they would walk away and cry and he would cry. \n\nI feel deeply sorry for anyone who has undergone this sort of thing.
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unlikely the lightning will strike you directly.  most likely cause of why people get shocked inside their house is because lightning can travel through the water pipes and the electrical wires.  if you are on the phone, washing the dishes, or taking a shower, chances are you will get shocked.
106639
electric pulses. everything in our body is controled by electricity. thats why you can start or stop a heart with electronic shock.
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My husband they sent to physical therapy & they used light electrical shocks on that side of his face. It worked great & varily quickly. No sign of it now.
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Basically when you are excersizing your muscles store energy and when your muscles exceed the amount of force that can be put on them you feel an electric shock released from your muscles due to over working your muscles.
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According to one teen in London, definately no.\n\n"==\nIn the British Medical Journal, they highlight the case of a teenager left with severe injuries after being struck by lightning when talking on her phone.\n\nThe metal in the phone directs the current into the body, they say.\n\nA 15-year-old girl was struck by lightning while talking on her phone in a large park in London during stormy weather. \n\n...\n\nWhen a person is hit by lightning, the high resistance of human skin causes the lightning charge to flows over the body - often known as an 'external flashover'.\n\nBut some of the current can flow through the body. The more that flows through, the more internal damage it causes.\n\nConductive materials in direct contact with the skin such as liquid or metal objects increases the risk that the current will flow through the body and therefore cause internal injury. \n=="\n\nSo, best thing to do when your in a thunderstorm is to hold off calling your friends to tell them. Well, that and get inside.
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When I was about 10 years old I tried to heat up a metal rod on the coils of a 2kW electric radiator. I vaguely remember that a moment passed and then wham! I was thrown back so hard I toppled the settee behind me.\n\nSurprisingly I suffered no other ill-effects, not even a burnt thumb and forefinger.\n\nElectricity is dangerous stuff.\n\nIt was an interesting experience, not to be repeated.
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Brian's answer is correct.\nThe 'shock' you feel is the flow of electric current through your muscles.\nBut voltage is a measure of how much potential the electric source has - the higher the voltage, the more current will flow through you when you hold the terminals. The relationship between the voltage and current is known as Ohm's law. V=I*R. Where R is the resistance between the two terminals (your body, perhaps).\nYou can die with just a few milliamps (1 amp = 1000 milliamps) of current passing through your body IF it flows through your heart (and for a certain length of time). It will induce fibrilations as it interferes with your normal heart electric current.\nHaving said all that, you can feel voltage too without causing current to flow - in the form of your hair standing on end. You need a lot of voltage (thousands of volts) to cause that sort of effect.\nAnd that brings up the next question, why doesn't regular static electricity kill you? It has thousands of volts, so why does it not cause amps to flow through your body (and heart) and kill you? Well, in most normal circumstances the quantity of charge (number of electrons) is very very small - so the current flows for only the briefest of moments and doesn't do any harm to a normal person. However, if you have a pacemaker then you can kill the device and so kill the person! Electronic circuits are typically far less robust than the human body in this circumstance.
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I think the electricity from the taser causes causes your all of your nervous cells to trigger all at once.  When a nervous cell is triggered it needs some time to recover before it can send another signal, so if all of your cells are in this recovery stage then I guess this is why it would incapacitate a person for a limited time.