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| 11 November 2010
UK Edition |
 Dear Reader,
You probably already suspected it was true.
Watching your children or grandchildren go around with those little white headphones jammed in their ears all day, you can't help but wonder what it's doing to their hearing.
After all, the music is so loud, you can hear it from across the room — and those things are right in their ears!
Will they be deaf before they're 20? Should they really be listening all day like that?
But you don't want to nag, knowing they're just going to roll their eyes and say you're out of touch. "Besides," they'll challenge you, "can you prove it?"
Well...yes. Now you can.
For the proof, we look to a 24-year study of 8,710 adolescent girls, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
The girls, who started the study at an average age of 16, had their hearing tested at the beginning of the study in 1985.
Between then and the end of the study, high-frequency hearing loss nearly doubled. This kind of hearing loss results from excessive noise exposure — like cramming little headphones into your ears and pumping up the volume.
Between 2001 and 2008, the number of girls listening to music on personal devices such as iPods went from 18.3 per cent to a whopping 76.4 per cent. In that same time, high frequency hearing loss shot from 12.4 per cent to 19.2 per cent.
Girls (now women, of course) using the devices were 80 per cent more likely to have impaired hearing. Some of them reported experiencing tinnitus — all but one with the condition were headphone users.
It's best to use headphones in moderation — and to keep the volume at a "conversational" or slightly higher level — any higher and the ears are overworked, leading to damage down the road.
It can be tricky, though, to communicate that to children, who imagine they're immune to such ailments as hearing loss.
Why not ask the children if they'd like to give their ears a little break and listen together — plug that iPod into the stereo and enjoy their music with them. Hey, you might even find a new favourite band!
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Sources:
"Hooked on Headphones? Personal Listening Devices Can Harm Hearing," Newswise (newswise.com)
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