Are MP3 Players Such As the Apple iPod now the Premier Cause of Tinnitus and Hearing Loss?
Recent survey shows hearing loss and tinnitus attributed to MP3 players such as the Apple iPod is now the major cause of tinnitus from noise induced hearing loss.
Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) February 10, 2007 -- T-Gone Remedies, Inc. the premier supplier of natural tinnitus treatment and relief products on the web today released the findings of a recently conducted study.
T-Gone Remedies operates the popular website http://www.t-gone.com which currently attracts more than five times the amount of visitors than the American Tinnitus Association,* recently conducted a survey amongst over 15,000 present and past clients in an effort to determine the major causes of tinnitus in our modern day society.
Not surprisingly, cochlea damage was named as the underlying cause of the tinnitus in over 90% of respondents.
What was surprising was that in people younger than 40, over 70% of respondents named MP3 players (with the Apple iPod being the most popular) as the probable root cause of their tinnitus.
Many respondents routinely listened to MP3 players for an average of over two hours every day, typically during the commute to and from their places of work and all of them chose over 80% as the volume settings whilst commuting.
"Walk around any campus today, get on a bus or train and you will see people using these devices, some of them at mind blowing volumes," remarked one former MP3 lover. "I know, because I was guilty of the same practice for three years as a student. It was only when I started getting this strange ear ringing noises in my ears that I ever even heard of hearing loss or tinnitus."
"Ignorance is part of the problem," says T-Gone Remedies CEO John Currie. "Most young people believe they will live forever and most wouldn't even read the warning statements supplied with MP3 players, even if they had one."
Is it time to consider having warning statements printed on MP3, similar to those enforced on the tobacco industry?
Anyone who is actively involved with hearing loss and tinnitus will tell you of the possible dangers of listening to these devices continually at such high volume.
It is a fact that Apple were forced to withdraw all the iPods from France last year and replace them with units that limited the output to below 100 decibels, but no such restriction is in place in the US.
With outputs of up to 120 decibels many MP3 players are capable of causing hearing damage after 15 or 20 minutes and with continued use this damage becomes permanent with hearing loss and tinnitus the result.
With Apple Inc. alone reported to have sold in excess of 50 million iPod MP3 players, many of today's younger generation could be soon experiencing the same level of hearing loss and tinnitus that were formerly only experienced by those in their sixties.
Tinnitus from noise is fast reaching epidemic proportions and it is possible that most of today's MP3 lovers could swop the ear buds of the iPod for a snazzy hearing aid by the time they reach their forties.
The scary thing is that the MP3 player is ubiquitous. It is everywhere. And it is more harmful than one would imagine.
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