Hearing Loss Because of iPod or Other Portable Multimedia Player
Listening music is one way to jack up the spirit, music can make life better, but what happens when music cause ear buzz? Of course, not the music that make we ears buzz, but the behavior in listening it makes hearing is not good anymore.Researchers in Australia found about a quarter of iPods users have hearing loss. The user who using other portable music players often at same risk or other hearing problems, people with hearing loss found in many users who play iPods in high volume continues.
National Acoustic Laboratories in Sydney asking the respondents who listening music with volume comparable to motorized device (ex.: drill machine). The researchers found that the level of buzz (tinnitus) will be increase because the ear can not adopt the habits of their normal hearing.
The record of Research is about 25 percent of the respondents tend to listen iPods or other portable music player with a noisy capacity comparable with the sound level of motorcycle engine or any device with noisy an average intensity over the 85 Decibels.
The hearing audiogram of normal people is located between 0 to 20 Decibels. More than between 30 to 100 decibels mean they have hearing loss.
The size of the intensity of normal hearing in audiogram note, where audiogram which located between 30 to 40 Decibels is low interference. From 40 to 60 Decibels is middle scale. Between 60 to 90 decibels is heavy scale. As an illustration, the sounds of drill engine have same with 100 decibels. Aircraft engine 120 decibels. The quiet room is between 30 to 40 decibels.
Enjoy the disco music, attends dance party, works in factories, listens to music while driving or just listen in the music studio, these conditions can make hearing loss if the case is include in the noisy category , said Professor Harvey Dillon, research construct.
“It would be better if you are listening music in normal volume, this disruption may not appear in the near future, but not impossible these disruptions appear in several years later, according Prof. Harvey Dillon.
Via healthyhearing
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