Ringing Ears

Ear phones are worn snugly as people carrying portable music players walk past her everywhere she goes day in and day out

. This senior at Chicago University mentions the popularity of these devices sharing how she uses her own iPod when studying or exercising. Sadly they fail to recognize how many people their age have already damaged their hearing. There is nothing but fear associated by researchers to the continuous growth in popularity of portable music players and similar devices connected to the ears.

From an Indiana university is a director of clinical education in audiology who says that the growing usage for such devices has increased rapidly as compared to the past. Devices like these are now listened to not only when people take a jog. Old people ears can be found in younger bodies, according to him. Through the efforts of his colleagues and himself, they were able to discover how noise induced hearing loss has developed in most of the students that participated in their random examinations. For someone who is not able to respond well to higher frequency sounds, there is the problem of not being able to follow a conversation if a place is noisy as well as the consistent experience of mild ringing in the ears.

From patients aged 30 to 40 years old, specialists have seen numerous manifestations of conditions with more pronounced tinnitus, internal ringing in the ears, not to mention buzzing and whooshing sounds as well. For the director of a hearing center at a Houston children's hospital who works with people from this age group, what we are seeing may be the tip of the iceberg. As said, more cases like this will cause no alarm whatsoever.

Everything from loud concerts and clubs to power tools used regularly and even the use of firearms can all lead to noise induced hearing loss. Most doctors see people's usage of headphones as no longer intended for music alone but also to serve the purpose of blocking unwanted sounds from the streets or from public transport vehicles. Everything can lead to hearing loss.

The loss of hearing is a problem you cannot combat early on. Discovering the problem may happen after years of waiting and a prolonged exposure, as said by an otologist in Minnesota. An easily detectable symptom of damaged ears is experiencing some ringing after being in a noisy place. For doctors, rest can lead to the partial recovery of a person's hearing. Good hearing is attributed to the hairs in the inner ear and they can still be damaged if there is prolonged exposure.

Heading a task force on hearing and children, a Northern Colorado university audiologist mentions how the presence of rechargeable batteries leads to the worsening situation where people are listening to these portable devices even longer these days. Volume levels can reach the roof and this causes even more problems for the ears. 25 percent of people who have portable stereos expose themselves to excessively high noise levels that can cause ear damage, as based on the survey published by the national acoustic laboratories in the summer. Coming from Britain's royal national institute for deaf people are research findings that show how those from the ages of 18 to 24 are the ones who normally violate the safe levels of listening.

Is it already too much? When it comes to portable music players it is safe to use them for an hour a day and at a volume of 60 percent of the maximum, as said by researchers from a children's hospital in Boston. People can resort to moving away from loud noises or using ear plugs when at work or in play in order to protect their hearing, as experts advise.

by: David Hamilton..

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