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The World Health Organization recently informed us that more than “1 billion young people between the ages of 12 and 35 are at risk of hearing loss due to deafness caused by listening to loud music for long periods of time”.
Hearing loss could be classified as an epidemic, which is related to the use of low-quality headphones, listening to loud music, lack of timely treatment, noise pollution in cities and lack of awareness of young people on the subject. Did you know poor quality headphones are the worst for taking care of our ears? For this reason, it is important that, if you are used to listening to music with headphones, they are of good quality. We share with you a comparative list of in-ear music headphones so that you damage your ears as little as possible. At Audioenlace Producciones, we are very aware of hearing health, and for this reason, we consider it important to provide valuable information that allows promoting knowledge on health issues related to hearing.
It is important to keep in mind that hearing loss can be classified into different degrees: mild, moderate, severe or profound. Hearing loss can be due to many causes: diseases, ear infections, complications in the ear canal or working in environments with high noise pollution. However, there has been an increasing trend of cases, mostly in young people, who present incipient deafness due to bad habits in the use of headphones (culturasonora.com).
One of the main problems that arise from sound loss is that it is a process that occurs gradually, therefore, people do not pay due attention to this, until the damage to the ear canal has worsened.
Hearing loss is due to prolonged exposure to noise pollution and depends on two main factors: the amount of volume (measured in units of decibels or ‘dB’) and the exposure time. The adequate average to maintain a safe volume without risk of affecting the auditory canals is around 85 dB, but if instead there is a maintained constant at higher dB levels, the following could occur:
- At 95 dB, we may suffer hearing loss after four daily hours of exposure.
- At 100 dB, loss takes place after an exposure adding up to two hours a day.
- At 105 dB, after being exposed one hour a day.
- At 110 dB, we may experience loss with 30 minutes of daily exposure.
- At 115 dB, loss may take place after 15 minutes of exposure.
- At 120 dB, loss can occur instantly.
That is why relying on adequate headphone devices and keeping recommended volume levels are variables that exponentially favour our health as well as hearing loss prevention in the interest of the healthy enjoyment offered to us by music and each and every sound in life.