Electric shock - tingling sensation?

Question

While I was washing the dishes the other day, I didn't realize i was stepping on an extension cord while doing it (was barefoot). I experienced a weird tingling sensation at my fingers while washing for a few seconds and it went away as soon as i realized my foot was on the cord and stepped off it. I felt fine afterwards. Is this type of shock a serious one? Also, is it one of those shocks that traveled all the way up my leg and to my fingers? Could it have crossed through my abdomen?

Answer 1

It sounds like it was definitely a mild shock. Yes, it could travel all through your body. If you are pregnant, call your doctor and get his/her opinion. It doesn't sound as if you were hurt. Be more careful next time.

Answer 2

If you feel fine now, you're fine. Get the cord checked, though.

People talk about voltage, but it's really current that kills you. When you walk across a carpet and touch a doorknob, you're hit with thousands of volts, but the current is so low it won't cause damage. The reason high voltage is dangerous is that it causes more current to flow through you. Specifically:

current = voltage / resistance.

If the voltage is high, the current is high. If the resistance is low (as it is when your hands or feet are wet), the current is also high. People can easily feel currents as low as 1 mA (milliamp) and it takes about 50 mA to fibrillate your heart, which is often fatal. What you felt was apparently closer to 1 mA, so it traveled from your foot through your body (including your abdomen) to your fingers, but the current was low enough you only noticed it in your fingers. The diameter of your abdomen is larger than your fingers, so the current was less concentrated, which is one reason you didn't feel it there.

Answer 3

IN THE FIRST PLACE WHAT IN THE HECK WERE YOU DOING WITH AN EXTENSION CORD LAYING ACROSS THE KITCHEN FLOOR! THAT WAS TOTALLY CARELESS! AND CARELESS TO THE POINT OF EASILY COULD HAVE BEEN FATAL
You are just lucky you did not make good contact with anything grounded. Yes under the right conditions 110 can be fatal. I got a job once because the electrician was working under his house with a dirll motor and using a faulty extension. It electocuted him. And he was an electrician in a steel mill used to working with volts ranging from 69,000 volts which fed the plant to 110 volts control volt.

Just don't get careless again. You were real lucky this time. Don't let in happen again

Answer 4

First of all, replace the cord. It shouldn't matter if you step on it.

No way a shock that slight can cause you any harm, but you're just lucky. It was slight because the connection wasn't very good. If you had taken all 110v in that situation, it could have been bad.

But not for your abdomen--it was your heart that was at risk. In order to affect your abdomen, it was have had to have been strong enough to arc between you intestines. 220v might do that, but the danger of that is really from 440v.

Answer 5

The 'humorous bone' surely refers back to the ulnar nerve which runs each and every of how down on your little finger. it really is an unprotected nerve (no longer coated through different tissues) and so is elementary to knock, supplying you with a tingly or painful feeling travelling alongside it.