SYDNEY-Since ages we all have been told by our elders to turn down that music or not listen to music in a loud volume. Many, among us think that it is just a myth. Beware, there is good medical reason to do so.
The World Health Organization warned in a recent report that over a billion young people are at risk for permanent hearing loss. And do you know that one of the main felons is a widely used device for listening to music — the smartphone.
“Anything where you’re putting sound into the eardrum, that’s something as a society that we need to take a closer look at,” says Rex Banks, chief audiologist at the Canadian Hearing Society.
That’s because loud noises damage the cilia of the inner ear, the tiny hair-like structures that change sound waves into electrical signals that are carried to the brain. The damaged cilia never grow back. “Once they’ve been damaged, that’s irreversible,” says Banks.
Dr. Shelly Chadha, prevention of deafness and hearing loss technical officer for the World Health Organization, explains the danger with smartphones is that many people are listening to music that is simply too loud.
Compounding the problem, says Banks, is the fact that people often listen to music when they are out on the street or in the subway where there is a lot of other background noise.
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