Tips For Protecting Your Hearing
Being exposed to excessive noise levels (higher than 85 decibels) while working or performing other types of activities can increase your risk of hearing loss significantly or exacerbate a hearing impairment that you already have. In addition, if you do not wear hearing protection when there are harmful noise levels in the area, it is good to cause problems in the future. This is because the cochlea’s delicate hair cells will start to suffer damaging effects. The cochlea is the inner-ear organ that sends sound signals over to the brain.
Listening to loud music, running power tools, ATV riding, hunting, sporting events, and concerts can result in irreparable hearing damage. These noise levels sometimes reach up to 110 decibels (dB) or high, which can place your hearing at risk within a few minutes. Some sounds can instantaneously damage hearing. For example, a shotgun blast from a short distance without any protection can be higher than 150 dB and damage your hearing permanently in one brief moment.
Being exposed to noise repeatedly early on in life can become compounded as you grow older. Your inner ear’s hair cells never regenerate. Therefore, it is unlikely that your hearing will improve on its own once you have experienced repeated traumatic events. Suppose you suffer hearing damage as a teenager. In that case, it might not surface until you are in your late twenties or early thirties – or even not until your fifties or sixties when presbycusis becomes a more significant factor, which is age-related hearing deterioration.
Hearing protection works to prevent damaging noise levels through dampening sounds that are piercing but still allow you to hear sounds that you want to clear. The hearing protection that we offer goes well beyond any earplugs that you purchase at a drugstore. The Hearing Doctor provides a range of custom-fit hearing protection designed to perfectly fit your ear’s contours to offer a comfortable and snug fit and protect you from dangerous noise all day long.
If Hearing Loss Is Not Treated Will, There Be Consequences Later On In Life?
It is essential to protect your hearing since hearing loss is linked with numerous serious health conditions later on in life. Research has established a relationship between dementia and hearing loss, and this association is a close one. Strong evidence shows that brain-tissue atrophy is accelerated by hearing loss, especially in parts of the brain stimulated by auditory nerves but cannot since they are not getting a signal due to hearing loss. Those parts of the brain are related to speech and memory as well.
It is three times more likely for people who have mild hearing losses to fall compared to those who do not, and the chance of a fall increases as the amount of hearing loss increases. Various other diseases have also been linked to hearing loss, including sickle-cell anaemia, cardiovascular diseases, and different types of circulatory problems.
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What Is Too Loud?
Generally speaking, if you need to raise your voice to be heard over noise or music, it is most likely too loud and could possibly damage your hearing. Things such as heavy freeway traffic or lawnmowers have a tendency to range from 80 to 90 dB, where your hearing is at risk of becoming damaged. People who are exposed to noises of 85 dB or higher should test their hearing regularly to find out if they already have hearing damage.