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Can Electric Shocks Effect The Heart?
My son works at a fabrication shop and sometimes gets shocked. For the past couple months he gets a sharp, fast pain on the left side that sometimes moves downward or sideways.He saw a heart doctor but is only wearing a heart monitor for 30 days. Nothing else has been determined. Does getting shocked mess up your heart?
He is 26 and in good health.
He is 26 and in good health.
Fri, 1 Aug 2014
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Thanks for posting your query .
Yes Electrical Shock can cause problem to heart . See there are small electrical currents running in the heart continuously but when a electric current enters body from outside it may interfere with the heart current .
But the serious effects can happen only at the time of shock and not after few days . So don't worry . Let the Heart Monitor report come . Do let me know what did the report say .
Thanks for posting your query .
Yes Electrical Shock can cause problem to heart . See there are small electrical currents running in the heart continuously but when a electric current enters body from outside it may interfere with the heart current .
But the serious effects can happen only at the time of shock and not after few days . So don't worry . Let the Heart Monitor report come . Do let me know what did the report say .
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