Has it happened to you that you are sitting and working in the office and you get an electric shock as soon as you touch something? This often happens to us when someone touches something or we touch someone. This problem of electric shock is happening to many people these days. These shocks feel exactly like when someone gets an electric shock. But there is no harm or effect on health in this shock. These shocks come for a moment only, but they scare you completely. Okay, this was about the condition of electric shock but what is the reason behind it? Let us tell you that this is not a disease, so you do not need to panic much. But we should know why is this happening? Let us know in detail.

Why are you feeling electric shock?

You must have studied physics in school? If not physics, everyone studies science. If you remember, we were taught about atoms in science books. Atom means a chemical substance, which can be in solid, gas and liquid form. Atoms include electrons, protons and neutrons. These three are also present in all of our bodies. Their role plays an important role in creating a situation of electric shock.

How is the current feeling?

These atoms play a major role in electric shock. Atoms have electrons and protons, in which electrons are of positive (+) charge and protons are of negative (-) charge. Whereas, neutrons are of neutral charge. Usually the number of protons and electrons is normal. But sometimes when the number of electrons in someone’s body increases, then it starts having negative charge. In such a situation, whenever our body comes in contact with any positive charge, it starts attracting itself there rapidly. In that situation, electric shock is felt. Electric shock can be felt in 2 ways.

First, if you have a positive charge inside you and you are touching a negatively charged surface.
If a person with negative charge touches you, both of you may get an electric shock.
Secondly, if you are impacted by a negative charge, this happens by touching a positively charged body or surface.
Negative charge can also come inside the body by touching any surface, if it is negatively charged.
People are more affected in winter

The problem of electric shock also depends on the weather. This problem is more common in winters. Actually, the process of formation of negative charge in people’s body is more in winters, due to which electric shock occurs. In summers, the moisture present in the air destroys the negatively charged electrons, due to which electric charge or current is felt less in this season.

What do the experts say?

London neurosurgeon Dr Nathan Keiser gives a detailed analysis on this problem which is increasing among people and says that this is a common problem which is being experienced by many people. In this, the body feels electric shocks or jolts. Especially in hands, legs and head. This phenomenon was first described in the 1920s and it is often associated with the cervical spinal cord. However, medical help is necessary only when the problem troubles repeatedly every day.

How does negative charge increase in the body?

In science, it is called static current. Negative charge is responsible for this current in the body. Weather is responsible for the increase in negative charge but apart from this, there are some other things due to which this happens. These are some main reasons:

Wear woolen and warm clothes.
Due to the feet not being in touch with the ground, the electron count in the body becomes imbalanced.
This also happens due to excessive dryness in the body.
What is static current?

Static current is created when two objects rub against each other. This causes them to take or give electrons to each other, creating a negative charge in one object and a positive charge in the other. This electric charge builds up and when the two objects come in contact with each other, a current is felt, like a shock when you touch something metal.

Some ways to reduce negative charge

Maintain contact of feet with the ground.
Maintain moisture in the body.
Wear linen and cotton clothes.

story script :The kalam Times