I have seen a man died of electrical shock when he was working on overhead live electrical wires. After his death I noticed blood oozing out from his mouth and nose.
2006-10-17 05:31:46 · 2 answers · asked by Rana1411 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Yikes! That's kind of scary...and morbid.
High voltage travels through the body to the ground. If it is high enough and crosses the path of the heart (>100 mA), it can cause the heart to beat so irregularly that the person dies (ventricular fibrillation). The heartbeat is so disorganized, that blood swirls around and isn't effectively pumped from the heart through the arteries to the brain. And brain without blood flow is brain without oxygen. Brain without oxygen dies pretty quickly.
As for the bleeding, this is the impact of such a large current flowing through the body. The body, especially in skin, bone, and fat, resists quite a bit of this electrical current flow. This resistance results in electrical energy converting to thermal energy (heat). This is similar to the smoke that rises when people slam on their breaks - the resistance of the road to the tires burns the tires. Back to the human body, the heat energy that is produced effectively burns the tissue...and blood vessels burst open...and blood spills...
This blood then often exits the bodies out the orifices, including the mouth and nose.
So there is your answer, as morbid as it is.
Sometimes witnessing such an event can be fairly tramatic!
I hope you are doing OK!
2006-10-19 11:11:28 · answer #1 · answered by yachadhoo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the high flow of electric current through the body damages the configuration of clotting proteins and mechanisms, that is why we see bleeding, good luck
2006-10-19 11:09:53 · answer #2 · answered by HK3738 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋