Hear Better, Live Better: Understanding Hearing Loss and How to Take Control
Understanding Hearing Loss: What You Need to Know and How We Can Help
Have you heard? October is National Protect Your Hearing Month (#NPYHM). Your ears are intricate organs that you must protect over your lifetime to keep them healthy and lessen the chance of the development of noise-induced hearing loss. Hearing Aids of Sarasota wants to offer you 10 Tips to safeguard your hearing.
Noise is all around us.
The world is a noisy place, and the way sounds are measured is in decibels (dB). Noises above 70 dB over a prolonged period can damage your hearing. Regular conversation averages around 60dB, while a whisper is at 30dB. In contrast, that firetruck that whizzed by you in traffic has sirens that sound between 110-129 dB, and when you came home and mowed the lawn, you exposed your ears to about 85 dB. Later that evening, when you joined friends to hear your favorite local band, their speakers could have pushed sounds exceeding 105 dB. At this level, hearing loss is possible in less than five minutes!
According to the National Institute for Occupational Health Safety and Health (NIOSH), in the United States, after high blood pressure and arthritis, hearing loss is the third most common chronic physical condition. However, noise-induced hearing loss is preventable, so here are 10 tips we’d like to share to help you protect your hearing.
At Hearing Aids of Sarasota, with two convenient locations in Sarasota and Longboat Key, we are here to help should you have any worries about your hearing health and how to best manage it. Contact us today for an appointment.
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