What's wrong with our body actually when we get ELECTROCUTED (electrical shock). or STRUCKED by a LIGHTNING?

Question: I remember I got electrocuted once while changing the ligthbulb. it's so much painful that I passed out and fainted for few minutes. when I regained my consciousness, I found my boyfriend sobbing next to me. His sister has given me CPR. I saw him sitting on a stool grabbing onto my hand with both of him, crying.

My boyfriend also got strucked by a lightning once. He was outside reconstructing the famous Benjamin Franklin kite experiment when lightningbolt stroke him! I was so panicked that he vaporized in front of my very own eyes! Fortunately, he was just thrown away (O.M.G!) violently and hanging restlessly in huge tree nearby. weak and paralyzed! Glad that he survives and lives healthily today.

Answers:
Ok, nice and simple.

Several things happen at once.
- the electricity finds the easiest way possible from the place it got in, to a place to get out and flow away- this is the 'ground'. It might actually be the ground, or it might be something conductive we are touching.

- When you got zapped, you were probably either touching something the electricity could exit through, on a metal chair or ladder, or something. The lightening went right through your bf and went in the ground.

- The electricity leaves burns along the pathway. We see this most on our skin, but in our cells, it can boil the water, rupture the cells, etc., causing pain and injury.

- The electicity messes up our bodies natural electrical workings- it can stop the heart, or throw the heart's electrical system into a frenzy; it can jangle the nerves so hard that reflexes force our body to move violently; it can also mess up the chemistry in the cells.



Now- this is a good place for a commercial. You and those you love really should take some CRP and first-aid classes. This kind of thing happens to people, and some basic education can help you be more prepared or the next time.

The Red Cross offers great classes you can check out if you are interested.

Other Answers:
Wow.. you seem to have a lot of luck. The electricity damages nerves and also causes all of your muscles to contract temporarily lose control (even your heart) it can also kick start a stopped heart. After prolonged electrocution, body tissue begins to deteriorate and carbonize. It's that deteroration or just the stopping of the heart that kills.

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