Music lovers warned about hearing loss
Jul 4th, 2007 | By Steve | Category: News
The RNID have released a report called “Like it Loud?” as part of their Don’t Lose The Music campaign. The report is a call to both the Government and the Music industry to take steps to promote the issue of noise as a public health concern.
The research in the report shows an alarming ignorance among young people about the damage they are potentially doing to their hearing at gigs, clubs and other noisy venues. The report argues that in order for people to take responsibility for protecting their hearing, they must be given clear information about dangerous noise levels and steps they can take to prevent hearing damage.
The RNID calls on the Government to
- Establish a recommended noise level for music events and venues
- Educate young people about noise as a public health risk
and the Music industry to
- Ensure venues have areas will people can take a break from the noise, in which noise levels should not exceed 85dB
- Publish noise levels in venues along with warnings and advice about hearing damage
- Make earplugs readily available and promote their use
You can read the full report here. It has also been mentioned on the BBC.
Just do a search on ipod hearing loss - you’ll see plenty of information about children listening to headphones too long, too loud, damaging their eardrums.
I don’t think information will help. Probably a whole generation will need to experience this themselves, to see it as a real danger, much like we needed to see with cigarettes and lung cancer.
I guess the good news is that hearing loss is not “the end of the world”.
really i love music myself and when i was young wear hearing aids and i lay down with speaker right in my ear with 35 db and i wear earphone hook up music and when i get middle older i lost 40 db drop 5 db when i found out so i am without hearing aids lay on speaker really loudest due full deafness over 110 really music make me more relax due my parent said tooo loudest and i said i feel good beat and air music sound thru my deafnesss ear i love music until dog ate my hearing aids and now i still use loudest music feel beat beat air music awsome but my uncle and grandmother had hearing loss when get old