A person struck by lightning may appear dead with no pulse or breath but can be revived with cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR.

How does being struck by lightning kill you. Getting stuck by lightning is rough. A lightning strike can act as a massive fibrillator upsetting the hearts electrical rhythm and causing cardiac arrest. The question is if youre in the water near the lightning strike.

This is more dangerous when youre I. A direct strike can cause death by stopping your heart. There is no danger to anyone helping a person who has been struck by lightning.

The human body doesnt store electricity. The heat produced when lightning. We know that water is a good conductor of electricity so if lightning strikes water it will generate a current.

A direct strike is not the only way lightning can kill you. It can burn hotter than the sun scar your body and even blow off your clothes. Myth 7 If you touch a lightning victim youll be electrocuted.

Most often direct strikes occur to victims who are in open areas. Even worse it kills about 47 Americans. Direct Strike A person struck directly by lightning becomes a part of the main lightning discharge channel.

It felt like youd actually been walloped by something or you were inside a bass speaker As the bolt struck there was a millisecond flash of intense burning heat that had already dissipated by the time his brain could even register it. Lightning strikes can injure humans in several different ways. If you are standing nearby the current may find an easier path through your body these indirect strikes are a more common cause of death particularly in livestock.