How to Prevent Hearing Loss

Reggae artists and wailers agree that a music session is worthwhile only at volumes loud enough to prompt a police call. Dance music fans, on the other hand, feel music closer is better, going to such lengths as sleeping inside the speakers. Salience among those who disturb their neighbors on a frequent basis regarding the deafening effects of loud music is low.

The extravagance may cost them their hearing. Law enforcers eliminate such nuisances in order to serve the community, not really to protect a person from ruining his own hearing. At a certain volume, everyone exposed to the music will suffer temporary hearing loss, whether overnight or for an extended period. There are no information campaigns warning the public about the ill effects of really loud music.

The public knows too little about these dangers. There are radio shows that sporadically mention this issue. However, we haven't done anything this year due to the stress on the economy. With digital technology, higher, undistorted volumes are attainable today, making the threat of mass hearing loss even greater.

The rise in nightclub attendance as a recreational activity has also been indicated as a factor contributing to a rise in the number of people developing hearing problems. Campaigns in Britain, Canada, and the US have warned their publics of the effects of noise exceeding 85 decibels, but no local research has attested to this. Out of the two thirds of youth ages 18 30 who go clubbing regularly, three fourths go home with their ears ringing, according to the Guardian, a British newspaper, in reporting the research of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf in Britain.

Less than five out of ten know that hearing loss is preceded by ringing in the ears, and two out of five know that damage of this sort cannot be cured. While ringing usually goes away within 24 hours, prolonged, repeated exposure to loud music can lead to permanent tinnitus or deafness. Harm associated with loud music is taught to clubbers and music lovers through a program called "Don't Lose the Music".

Being conducted in the US and Canada are like programs. Research on the effects of loud music and corresponding education campaigns are conducted in the US by the American Tinnitus Association. Similar programs are being run in Canada. Local experts have found, in their frequent experience with hearing loss in young persons, that loud music is often a contributing factor. Neither an epidemiologic or experimental study has been conducted locally to count those affected by this morbidity or to conclude that loud music indeed causes hearing loss.

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