Can long frequent and loud use of Ipod really increase your risks of hearing loss?
Murasaki_Fuyu asked:
Uh. So yeah.. Can long frequent and loud use of Ipod really increase your risks of hearing loss? What are the negative effects on your ears/brain of listening to an Ipod for a long and “loud” time?
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Uh. So yeah.. Can long frequent and loud use of Ipod really increase your risks of hearing loss? What are the negative effects on your ears/brain of listening to an Ipod for a long and “loud” time?
January 29th, 2009 at 11:58 am
WELL MY MOM SAYS THAT I’LL GO DEAF IF I LISTEN TO MY IPOD FOR SO LONG. LOL
January 30th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
YES! I was watching Oprah awhile ago with this one doctor on it and a woman from the audience asked that same question. He said that you should never have the volume above 70%. It’s damaging to your eardrum.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Yes. Anytime you subject your ears to loud noise for long periods of time you are risking damaging your ears. If you are going to use headphones, keep the volume down and the in-ear headphones are worse than the “old school” headphones. As a young person it is easy to push away thoughts of the future, and I give you major props for taking the time and effort to find out more about this. Believe me, the older you get the more you wish you hadn’t done as a kid.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:22 am
Yes. It will damage your ear drums if too much sound gets in there.
February 4th, 2009 at 8:38 am
yes you will start to lose hearing especially in the high range
February 5th, 2009 at 7:53 am
All answers of “yes” are generally correct, but the reasoning is wrong. Noise exposure causes hearing loss by killing off the cilia in the hair cells in the cochlea. These are the cells that transmit sounds to the auditory nerve (it would have to be explosion level loud to damage the drum a.k.a. tympanic membrane). The reason the high frequency hearing goes first is the higher frequency sounds are on the outside of the cochlea (which is organized like a snail shell or a cinnamon bun) and they are less protected from noise than the low frequency sounds which are more protected in the center of the cochlea.