why do we get static electricity in our body?
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Most clothing now a days are made from man made fibers.\n The action of body movement causes the material to rub together. Also dry air warm air will speed up the generation of static. Walking on man made fibre carpets, plastic desks`etc in  the office will generate static because there is no ground to discharge it.  Nylon underware will also generate static.You will notice this some times when you first touch any metal connected to ground after being in the above envioment. You will hear a crack and experience an eclectic shock. Some static electricity can be generated up to 4,000 v. Oil tankers doing tank washing with sea water can generate this kind of voltage. If the tanks are not Inerted with CO2 an explosion can occur
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You are developing an electostatic charge through friction with the clothes you are wearing or things you touch, this is particularly common in periods of low humidity or you are wearing insulated shoes, or walking on an insulated floor, were normal discharge is not possible.
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Could be. You might also feel a tingling in your feet or on your body. If that happens, if your hair stands or you feel tingling outside, esp. when the conditions are right for lightning, HIT THE DIRT! That could make the difference btween living and dying.
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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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A brief explanation of what's going on - in the dry weather, you're building up static electricity on your body as you walk around. When you touch a metal object (like a doorknob) that has very little electric charge, the charge is transferred to the other object.\n\nSo, the short answer is that to prevent the annoying shocks, you need to avoid building up electricity, or keep discharging it to objects. Touching metal frequently will help. Also, you can avoid some of the annoying effects by touching things with something other than your fingertips first - for example, the back of your hand. Your fingertips are very sensitive, and it may not be as unpleasant to get small shocks on other parts of your body.
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I experienced something similar to the 'static shocks' that you are speaking of. When trying to stop taking the anti-anxiety/anti-depressant drug Effexor XR I experienced HORRIBLE withdrawal side effects, including something I likened to a 'shock' or..when you hit your elbow/funny bone and the jolt that goes through your arm...in your whole body! My mother also just stopped taking this, and she described the same things. A good question might be when do these occur? The frequency and any possible common denominators might help you to figure out what is causing this. Are you currently taking any medications, or have stopped them? See if these suggestions help!
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Static electricity is caused by friction. When the air is dry like in winter there is more friction.
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However unbelievable this may sound, it's true. The nervous system uses electricity of sorts. The water you use to take a shower is not "pure". It has lead in it. Lead is an excellent conductor. When the water comes out of the shower head the molecules are bouncing into the other water molecules as well as the lead molecules. Electricity is actually the breaking off of electrons. You need some kind of force to do that. That's what voltage is and the water molecules are acting as that force. So when you take a shower you also get bombarded with electrons. Just like charging a battery. Those electrons sort of kick your nervous system up a notch for a little bit. Like I said, strange but true.
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It's static electricity from your shoes.
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its called "static electricity".???
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no....human bodies carry electric current very well and when you touch something with too much static, it goes thru that point in your body, and out another (into the earth). You're basically the earthing-wire.
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ok its all about static electricity see if you rub a ballon aganist your hair it will become charged (-). And so will attached to a wall since it is electricty charged and will be attracted by the walls protons (+) charge
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Static electricity.  Just connect yourself to a ground and you'll be OK.
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static grounding I believe
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Our nerves are essentially long electrical circuits, electricity flows better at lower temperatures, this means that the signals from the receptor sites are sent more frequently and at a higher rate in colder weather. \n Also in warmer weather our bodies tend to go into a relaxed state trying to allow more energy to be given off and generate as much heat.  While the colder weather triggers the body into action to generate heat to prevent freezing.
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you're well insulated.  Therefore when you collect charge from moving around, you don't lose it very easily.  Then you touch something, a door, or metal that is a very good conductor....you lose the charge in the form of static electricity.  walking around on plastics will do the trick...turf, trampolenes, synthetic carpeting.  As they are very willing to give you charge that they have built up, and if you're well insulated...you start collecting it.
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Balance Your Body Chemistry.\n\nIf you've ever taken chemistry in high school you're familiar with this simple experiment to test the conductivity of salt. Two ends of an electrical wire are attached to a light bulb. The other ends are submerged in a glass of water. Because water alone is not conductive, the bulb does not light up. But when we add a little salt to the water the bulb starts to glow.\n\nIt's the same with our body. When we lack the natural elements in salt we suffer from a chronic energy deficit, or deficit of information. Salt is a core essential nutrient with exceptional abilities and qualities fundamental for keeping us alive.\n\nScience and medicine have tried to define the precise roles of salt in the healthy and diseased human organism. Blood, sweat, and tears all contain salt, and both the skin and the eyes are protected from infectious germs by the anti-bacterial effect of salt. When salt is added to a liquid, particles with opposite charges are formed: a positively charged sodium ion and a negatively charged chloride ion. This is the basis of osmosis which regulates fluid pressure within living cells and protects the body against excessive water loss (as in diarrhoea or on heavy sweating).  Sodium and chloride ions, as well as potassium ions, create a measurable difference in potential across cell membranes. This ensures that the fluid inside living cells remains separate from that outside. Thus, although the human body consists mainly of water, our "inner ocean" does not flow away or evaporate. Sodium ions create a high pressure of liquid in the kidneys and thus regulate their metabolic function. Water is extracted through the renal drainage system. The body thus loses a minimal amount of essential water. Out of 1500 litres of blood which pass daily through the kidneys, only about 1.5 litres of liquid leave the body as urine. \n\nSalt is "fuel" for nerves. Streams of positively and negatively charged ions send impulses to nerve fibres. A muscle cell will only contract if an impulse reaches it. Nerve impulses are partly propelled by co-ordinated changes in charged particles.