Instantaneous changes in the body when struck by lightning

(Baonghean.vn) - Lightning strikes can disrupt the electrical system in the human body, change personality and mood, cause memory loss and death.

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Body changes when struck by lightning

Lightning strikes the human body for just 3 milliseconds, but it is enough to cause terrible damage. When lightning strikes and exits the human body, it leaves deep wounds, often resulting in third-degree burns.

The victim's hair may be singed or set on fire. Their clothes may be torn to shreds by the force of the explosion in the surrounding air, which is hotter than 50,000 degrees Celsius.

If the victim is wearing a metal object, such as a necklace or ring, it also becomes a very hot electric current that burns your flesh.

If lightning strikes the feet, shoes will fly off. Blood vessels burst due to the force of the discharge and heat, creating a red mark on the skin called a Lichtenberg figure.

Lichtenberg spots on the skin after being struck by lightning. Photo: Internet

Red marks on the skin like a tree with many branches (Lichtenberg spots), just like an electric current running through the body.

Lightning can rupture the eardrum, causing hearing loss. One victim of a lightning strike described the pain as feeling like thousands of bees stinging his body.

Long-term effects of lightning strikes

When struck by lightning, the lightning strikes the heart, causing it to stop beating. This is one of the leading causes of death. Lightning can also cause seizures, respiratory arrest, brain damage, and temporary or permanent paralysis.

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Even if the victim is lucky enough to survive, he or she will face long-term neurological consequences from lightning strikes that scientists still do not fully understand.

Some scientists believe that lightning traveling through the human body's veins changes the activity of cells.

Victims may experience personality changes, emotional changes, and memory loss, or chronic pain and muscle spasms similar to those in Parkinson's disease.

However, in some cases being struck by lightning can reveal outstanding talents.

Neuroscientist Berit Brogaard of the University of Miami (USA) wrote about an orthopedic surgeon who, after being struck by lightning, had a desire to learn the piano and had a strange hearing ability.

The doctor began to compose music. A few months after he quit his job as a doctor, he became a classical musician. This is a phenomenon that science cannot explain.

The consequences of a lightning strike, whether positive or negative, affect the victim throughout his or her life.

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