About 16% of Americans between the ages of 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, which cannot be compensated for…
Until recently, only people who worked in noisy places or constantly dealt with firearms with their strong, annoying sound suffered from hearing loss. Recently, it is common to see a large percentage of teenagers who hold MP3 digital music players and have headphones on for long periods of time. During this period, they reached a high level of noise, and just as the use of mobile phones spread very quickly before ensuring that they were safe for the health of their users, digital music devices also achieved great spread, as the percentage of their users exceeded more than 90% of young people in Europe and the United States, and according to a recent study. Prepared by Peter Rabinowitz of Yale University School of Medicine, the danger of earphones lies in the fact that they produce higher levels of noise than the external headphones in the same storage unit, when they exceed 120 decibels, which is similar to the noise generated by a jet engine. There is also behavioral harm that lies in Using digital music players while driving, which may distract the driver’s concentration and make him lose the ability to act quickly.
