About 16% of Americans in the age group between 20 and 69 suffer from hearing loss, and the cause of sensorineural hearing loss lies in exposure to high levels of noise, which leads to the destruction of sensitive hair cells in the cochlea that cannot be compensated …
Until recently, only people who worked in noisy places or dealt continuously with firearms with their strong, annoying voice suffered from hearing impairment. Recently, it is usual to see a large percentage of adolescents who have grabbed MP3 digital music players and have put headphones for long times. During which it reached a high level of noise, and just as the use of mobile phones spread very quickly before ensuring their safety on the health of their users, digital music devices have also achieved great popularity, as their users exceeded more than 90% of young people in Europe and the United States, according to a recent study Prepared by Peter Rabinovitz from the Yale University School of Medicine, the danger of earphones lies in the fact that they give higher levels of noise than external headphones in the same volume, when they exceed 120 decibels, which is similar to the noise generated by a jet engine, and there is behavioral damage that lies in Using digital music players while driving, which may distract the driver from focusing and make him lose the ability to act quickly
