Warning: iPods Can Damage Your Hearing
Jeremy Laurance
Listening to MP3 players at high volume increases the risk of deafness sağırlık in later life, expert warns.
In the past it was labourers işçi in noisy factories and soldiers using firearms ateşli silah who lost their hearing. Now it is young people who crank up canlandırmak, teşvik etmek the sound on their personal music players.
A generation nesil of children and young adults are risking deafness in middle age and beyond by listening to their iPods and MP3 players at high volume for several hours a day, a specialist uzman has warned.
Inserting sokmak earphones kulaklık into the ear canal intensifies kuvvetlendirmek the volume which can reach over 120 decibels,equivalent denk to the noise from a jet engine motor, according to Professor Peter Rabinowitz of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine programme at Yale University.
Damage to hearing is not the only risk. Some studies have shown that listening to an iPod or MP3 player while driving can interfere zarar vermek, engel olmak with concentration in the same way as using a mobile phone.
"Clinicians klinik tedavi uzmanı should advise uyarmak current şu anki users to avoid kaçınmak listening to personal music players at maximum volume.Regarding hesaba katmak other safety concerns ilgi, it would be prudent akıllıca to advise removing earphones while driving and performing other safety-sensitive tasks.
"As the EU develops new regulations ayarlama for personal music players, it is vital çok önemli that manufacturers üretici and governments are supportive of these plans and work together to protect the hearing of a generation of music lovers."
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