Relax on the Tunes

Teens are losing their hearing a lot more easily today. Every day they are exposed to loud noises and aren’t aware of how it could affect them. A lot think their hearing is fine and that the music level they’re listening at is perfectly fine, when in fact, it’s very heath hazardous.

Teenagers now a days are listening to music at unhealthy levels. Listening to music over 85 decibels can affect your hearing. 85 decibels is about the sound of a hair dryer. Researchers have found that wearing ear buds is more dangerous than the typical “earworm” (a song stuck in your head). On a daily basis, you are exposed to sounds over 85 decibels. For example, motorcycles, cars, buses, firearms, and chainsaws. You may not be around some of those items a lot, but a lot of teens like to blast their music while driving, or doing homework, or sleeping, or just in the their room. By doing that, it can cause severe hearing loss as you get older. Signs to prevent hearing loss, are to watch out for any ringing in your ears after being around loud noises, or feeling like your ears are “plugged” after being around continuous loudness. The name of this disease is called tinnitus.

Although concerts are very fun and are great experiences for teenagers, they can also be bad for them. Over their years of being exposed to too much loud noise, they can suffer from noise-induced hearing loss. Chances are most teens don’t know someone with a hearing impairment, but as they grow up, they eventually will know someone. A lot of high schoolers walk through the halls with head phones in and some have it at a decent volume, others it seems like they’re trying to let everyone else hear their music.

They are many diseases you can get from listening to music too loudly. For example, you can get conductive hearing loss which is a problem with the outer and middle of the ear. Also, you can get sensorineural hearing loss which damages the inside of your ear causing you to need hearing aids and there is no cure. If you have mixed hearing loss, you have both conductive and sensorineural hearing loss. Central hearing loss is when your cochlea is fine, but parts of the brain, are not. Congenital hearing is a permanent affect that is given to a child at birth.

Therefore, listening to music too loud can affect your hearing in the long run. Teenagers are exposed to loud noises and sounds daily without knowing it because they’re ammune to it. A lot of teens should be aware of the fact that their hearing can be severely affected, but a lot wouldn’t care.

Are you going to turn down your tunes?

What would you do if you heard a ringing sound in your ear?

Does different ear phones help your hearing?

4 thoughts on “Relax on the Tunes

  1. I listen to music a lot. I have headphones on for a good amount of time also. It is good to hear this info about how bad it is to listen to music too loud. I never knew it could cause such bad hearing loss. I thought if you listened to it too loud you just would not hear things as well for just a little bit. Like when yours ears are plugged or if your ears are ringing. I know that if I hear ringing in my ear for an extended amount of time, it is not good. I should tell someone and maybe even get it checked out. Considering talking volume is 40 to 60 decibels, I wonder how loud music can really be. If it is that loud then it could easily cause hearing damage. Now I know not to turn up my music as loud as I normally would.This is very valuable information for everyone to hear, especially teens.
    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/patientinstructions/000495.htm

  2. I am very glad I found this, considering I spend hours on end at night, with headphones plugged in. I don’t necessarily believe I’m gonna lose my hearing anytime soon, but I’ll diffidently turn down my music if not cut back on the headphone use. I found an article on what goes on in your ears. It states that the inside of your ear contains tiny hairs that convert noise into electric signals, which can eventually become damaged. I think this problem will become more common at younger ages as music becomes more common.

    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/patientinstructions/000495.htm

  3. Tinnitus is a condition that many people expirence, but i don’t think it mainly has to do with music being too loud. Tinnitus can be an affect of post-trumatic stress disorder and even depression. Most of the time the “ringing” noise you hear is only temorary. though i think this topic needs to be looked at carefully and understood by kids in our generation as it is becoming a big problem in our soicety, I believe Tinnitus isn’t a huge problem as of right now.

    http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156286.php

  4. First off I think you did a really good job on the blog and I believe kids and their loud music is a very good subject that needs to be discussed. I believe many kids listen to their music way to loud and don’t realize the consequences now that will haunt them as they get older. Giving them the fact and statistics about this issue could possibly be what they need to learn. According to the article of Hearing Life, Many people experience “ringing in the ears” or tinnitus, which is often described as buzzing, ringing, hissing, humming, roaring or whistling that someone hears. More than 50 million people in the U.S. have this condition, according to the American Tinnitus Association.

    http://hearinglife.com.au/the-effects-of-loud-noise-on-your-hearing/

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