{"id":372,"date":"2010-10-20T19:51:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T02:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valleyaudiology.com\/va2015\/?p=372"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:51:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T02:51:18","slug":"protect-your-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/protect-your-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Your Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exposure to loud noise is one of the most common reasons for people to have hearing loss and it is nearly 100% preventable! In our country, approximately 36 million people have hearing loss and one in three developed their hearing loss as a result of expo- sure to noise.<\/p>\n

Noise causes hearing loss by damaging the hair cells in the inner ear. Hair cells are the sen- sory cells that covert the sounds we hear into electrical signals that travel up to the brain. Once the hair cells are damaged they cannot grow back. Much re- search is being done in the area of hair cell regeneration, but there is no fix on the horizon.<\/p>\n

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Sounds that can damage your hearing are either too loud for too long or are very loud and sudden. Noise is dan- gerous if:<\/p>\n

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  • You have to shout over it to be heard<\/li>\n
  • The noise makes your ears ring<\/li>\n
  • You have decreased hearing or muffled hear- ing for several hours af- ter exposure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    You can protect your hearing by wearing earplugs or ear- muffs when you are around sounds that are more than 85dB for a long period of time (see below for a chart of dB levels), turning down the volume of potentially harmful sounds like loud music, and finally, by walking away from the loud noise or avoiding loud places altogether.<\/p>\n

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    The following is a list of loudness\u00a0levels for common sounds:<\/p>\n

    60dB \u2013 normal conversations or\u00a0dishwashers<\/p>\n

    80dB \u2013 alarm clocks<\/p>\n

    90dB \u2013 hair dryers, blenders and lawnmowers<\/span><\/p>\n

    100dB \u2013 MP3 players at full volume 110dB \u2013 concerts, car racing and sporting events<\/p>\n

    120dB \u2013 jet planes at take off 130dB \u2013 ambulance and fire en- gine sirens<\/p>\n

    140dB \u2013 gunshots, fireworks and custom car stereos at full volume<\/p>\n

    Many patients remark that kids today are damaging their hear- ing with loud music, and that may be so, but over 30 million Americans in the workforce are exposed to potentially damaging noise on the job. Noise expo- sure is a concern for people of all ages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Exposure to loud noise is one of the most common reasons for people to have hearing loss and it is nearly 100% preventable! In our country, approximately 36 million people have hearing loss and one in three developed their hearing loss as a result of expo- sure to noise. Noise causes hearing loss by damaging…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","locid":"","rating":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}