| Aside from carrying their own portable music players, | | | | use headphones simply to listen to music but also to |
| she sees people everywhere she goes with ear buds | | | | ward off any ambient sounds from the streets and |
| worn firmly. These devices are not unusual, says a | | | | even buses and trains. All can be a valid reason for |
| senior at Chicago University who constantly uses her | | | | hearing loss. |
| own iPod when studying or exercising. They are not | | | | Manifesting hearing loss problems can happen without |
| familiar though about cases of damaged hearing in | | | | warning. In Minnesota, an otologist says that a |
| their particular age group. Even researchers fear the | | | | problem can surface after multiple exposures not to |
| worst when it comes to the rapid growth of these | | | | mention a long period of waiting. An easily detectable |
| portable music players and similar devices attached | | | | symptom of damaged ears is experiencing some |
| directly to the ears. | | | | ringing after being in a noisy place. It is advised by |
| Referring to these devices and their usage, an | | | | doctors that people rest to partially recover their |
| Indiana university's director of clinical education in | | | | hearing. Still, prolonged exposure can lead to the hairs |
| audiology comments on how today's situation is | | | | in the inner ear to become damaged and they are |
| worse than the past. Devices like these are now | | | | necessary for good hearing. |
| listened to not only when people take a jog. For him, | | | | When it comes to how people use these portable |
| more young people are developing old timer pairs of | | | | devices, it has been said by an audiologist from a |
| ears. Together with a few colleagues, they examined | | | | Northern Colorado university who deals with hearing |
| students randomly and saw a lot of disturbing cases | | | | and children that rechargeable batteries only cause |
| related to hearing loss that is induced by noise in the | | | | people to listen to them more not allowing their ears |
| students. In general, this translates to the loss of | | | | to rest. Another problem was the ear splitting volume |
| their capacity to hear higher frequencies wherein | | | | levels people employ for these. Based from the |
| they either miss out on conversations when the | | | | survey published during the summer by the national |
| surroundings are noisy or they experience some | | | | acoustic laboratories, 25 percent of portable music |
| ringing in the ears. | | | | player users have excessive daily exposure to noise |
| Aside from more pronounced tinnitus, there are a | | | | that could lead to hearing loss. When a person goes |
| number of 30 to 40 year olds seen by specialists | | | | over the safe levels for listening volumes, the |
| who have developed a whooshing sound or buzzing | | | | research of Britain's royal national institute for deaf |
| not to mention internal ringing in their ears. | | | | people shows that the probably age of this individual |
| Considering what is currently happening as the tip of | | | | is between 18 and 24. |
| the iceberg, the director of a hearing center at a | | | | Can you say if it's much over? It has been said by |
| children's hospital based in Houston shares his opinion. | | | | researchers from a children's hospital in Boston that |
| What they are expecting is seeing more cases like | | | | listening to a portable music player at 60 percent of |
| this one. | | | | its volume capacity for an hour a day is safe. Ear |
| A person who goes to a loud concert or a noisy club | | | | protection can be worn in the workplace or when |
| is as susceptible to noise induced hearing loss as a | | | | engaging in recreational activities as experts say but |
| person who uses firearms or even power tools. | | | | one can easily protect the ears by staying away |
| According to a number of doctors, people no longer | | | | from loud speakers. |