Is it theoretically possible to be electrocuted while using a bidet?

Anything is possible; but. it should be highly unlikely!!!

Rather difficult if the electrical current does not pass through the heart or brain, and electricity, like water, always takes the path of least resistance.

Actually, this question reminds me of a animal youtube video I came upon the other day. A woman is walking her dog through the park, he takes care of his business, she picks him up& holds his little tushie over a drinking water fountain so he doesn’t have to continue on with a dirty tush. I’ll never be able to drink from a water fountain again!!!

You can arrange to electrocute anyone, anywhere you choose. If your question is “can a bidet be rigged to electrocute someone using it?” The answer is yes.

Although I’ve only used a toilet like that a couple times, I have considered that. I think I prefer electricity and toilets not to mix. lol

@Demosthenes if you prefer that electricity and toilets not “mix”, what’s so different from other inventions that “mix” electricity and water? You might want to also stay away from any water that is heated, cooled, or moved with electricity,

Avoid jacuzzis, swimming pools, automatic ice makers, homes with electric water heaters, automatic sprinklers, drinking fountains that offer chilled water, electric coffee makers, crockpots, and in-sink disposers to name a few.
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I said electricity and toilets, not electricity and water. There’s something about all that electric luxury on a toilet that just feels wrong. :P

What a way to go.

I think that electric toilets might be a good, humourous, humiliating alternative to electric chairs.

If someone gets the death penalty, the electric toilet option might be a final point of arbitration.

Toilets are made of ceramic. Ceramic is used as an insulator to stop electricity from travelling where it shouldn’t go. I would be suspect of touching anything metal on a toilet that somehow has electricity rigged up to it. But the amount of electricity running through these things isn’t the same amount of energy that comes directly out of the household outlet. There are resistors in the way so the appliance is only running on what it needs and it ‘slows down’ the voltage and amps. Here is a video that explains everything about volts and amps, current and resistance and how electricity and even at which point it becomes dangerous for the human body. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iKD7vuq-rY

Doubtful, we seem to be pretty good at putting electricity and water together, like mentioned above with Jacuzzi tubs. But, I guess theoretically you could get electrocuted if the house is hit by lightening while you’re using it. That recommendation if don’t take a shower during a lightening storm is a real thing. I live where there is lots of lightening, and have lived in the lightening capital of America (still very close to me) and I’ve never heard of someone getting electrocuted on the pot.

The reason they say don’t take a shower during a thunderstorm is because of the metal pipes in old homes. They conduct electricity. Sitting on a porcelain/ceramic toilet and not touching anything metal, you’d be fine. Again, insulators that are used in electricity generating plants are made of ceramic. Lightning (not ‘lightening’) is deadly in some circumstances, but you can take precautions. Lightning behaves differently from the electricity that enters your house and wasn’t part of the OP’s question.

The more you learn about electrical systems and appliances in your home, the less ‘wrong’ it will feel.

The comments from @JLeslie reminded me of a neighbor who decided to take a tub bath during a thunderstorm. A huge bolt of lightening struck in his back yard & ran through the pipes into his house including his tub. When it was over, he was OK; however, when he got out of the tub, he had NO hair on the parts of his body in a direct line where the water level of the tub existed. Above the water level was fine. Below the water level was just fine. Approximately 1 inch from the water line down was bald as my dad’s head & the hair never grew back. I do my best to stay away from water during thunderstorms. In my lifetime, I’ve never known of or heard about anyone with problems using a toilet during thunderstorms. Of course, a bidet could change that; so, I’d keep that in the back of my mind!!!

That’s a creepy story!

@ScienceChick Not too long ago someone was electrocuted in a shower here, I don’t know if it was in an old house, but the lecture I was at didn’t say anything about that. The majority of the houses in my town are under 20 years old.

Edit: I just found this. http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/shower-in-thunderstorm/

I’m sticking with not showering.

Also, I found out the older houses here have a gas pipe in the attic that can attract lightening, I found that interesting since the house that was hit twice with lightening where I used to live in TN probably had that same pipe. Now, here where I live, they are using something new that supposedly won’t attract the lightening.

The older houses simply have MORE metal pipes and less PVC pipe so are more likely to problematic. Hot water pipes are metal, so newer houses can also kill folks this way. I don’t know anything about gas fittings in attics. It’s not a feature in homes I’ve lived in. Yes, I saw that episode of Mythbusters. Also, here is a safety pamphlet from NOAA. https://www.weather.gov/media/safety/Lightning-Brochure18.pdf

@ScienceChick Your pamphlet you linked reinforces not to use the shower. Like I said, I live in a part of the country that receives an incredible amount of lightening strikes. I know people personally who have been hit or hit while in their car, or their house was hit (thank goodness everyone I know is ok). People have been killed by lightening in towns I have lived in or towns near me. Knowing about lightening safety where I live is like Californians knowing about earthquake safety.

Yes, like I said. I never suggested it was safe to use the shower when there is lightning (not lightening). I said it was because of the pipes, not just the water. The metal pipes conduct the lightning strike around the house and if you are even just standing near them, you could be at risk. I think the OP’s main concern, though, wasn’t lightning strike, it was having electricity running through something so near water. Did you watch the video I posted?

^^Yeah, you mean the part where being wet extremely lowers your resistance to an electrical shock?

I brought up lightning as a possible, extremely rare, fluke, with the bidet. The same risk probably applies to washing ones hands the same second a bolt hits.

Yes, washing hands, doing dishes, talking on a landline, loading your washing machine… it all puts you in proximity of something that conducts electricity if lightning hits your house and follows the plumbing/electrical lines, including sitting on a bidet. But the OP was worried about the electricity running the gadgets, not a lightning strike. (you got it spelled right that time. Well done.)

If you touched a bare wire with your left hand while your butt was being sprayed with a solid stream of water, yes, it’s possible. But you probably wouldn’t get killed if only your butt was in contact with a bare wire while the solid stream of water was dousing your bung hole. (No amperage flowing through your heart.)

Lol.