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What injury might you suffer if lightning strikes near you but does not hit you?
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∙ 12y ago
- Your brain could have some electrical problems.
- I just had a near strike a week ago and am still having "MAJOR" headaches and sharp pains in my head. Along with nerve problems that make my body have convulsions.
- Having treated near strike victims, there are many other things that can happen. Current from the strike can actually travel up from the ground and cause vascular and neurological injury in the extremities as well as heart rhythm disturbances. The shock wave can can cause injury also. You may have post concussion syndrome from the shock wave of the bolt. See a neurologist.
- I would think that you would have some nervous problems (i.e .convulsions, major headaches, as mentioned above) Some more serious problems could include cardiac arrythmia due to changes in the body's electrical signals.
- A strike that hits very close to you is likely to cause hearing problems, burns, loss of eye sight and minor head trauma. When a bolt of lightning is discharged, it heats the air up so much that it expands to almost vacuum staus. This causes a loud bang, also known as thunder. Being so close to this sound may even cause you to go temporarily deaf. The flash is also brighter than the sun. If you look directly at it when it is too close, it is worse than looking at the sun directly. Not good. And obviously, the heat that is expanding the air will also burn you skin. The head trauma can come from the vibrations and electricity put off by a lightning bolt.
- Within a certain radius of the bolt, the air becomes ionized to the point where it can kill anything around it. If you do happen to survive, hearing difficulties or loss are imminent.
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