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Article: Health Midlands: Our daughter had an electric shock Ask Alan Your child health queries
- Article from:
- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- April 10, 2007
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Q Our daughter received an electric shock the other day but seems
OK. Should we worry about long-term effects?
A No. An electric current is a serious risk to life at a
surprisingly low level, especially if the current is able to pass
easily through the body because of wet conditions and it passes
through the brain or heart.
It's surprising there aren't more casualties from electrocution
given this, but the numbers killed in the home each year through
electric shock is relatively small, being dwarfed by causes such as
falls.
There have even been some remarkable survivals of people struck by
lightening, probably because the current was so huge it passed over
and not through their body.
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