What You Don’t Know About Hidden Hearing Loss Will Shock YOU!!!
Hidden Hearing
Loss KILLS clarity.
You can hear, but can’t understand!
You have 3500 inner hair cells tied to 50K nerves that don’t regenerate.
Once they are gone…
They are GONE!
Sudden Hearing loss is a Medical Emergency!
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“The popularity of LOUD music is causing a ticking time bomb of hidden hearing loss, causing unnoticeable decay of the inner ear, making it more and more fragile till it suddenly gives out.”
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WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT?
WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT?
You are born with 3500 inner hair cells for hearing, Compare this to the 100,000 hair strands on your head, or the 126,000,000 rods and cones of your eyes. In this context, 3500 inner hair cells in the ear is not a lot. What you do with them is up to you! If you lost a strand of hair each day, it would take you about 300 years to become completely bald.
If you lost one inner ear hearing hair cell a day out of your 3500, you would completely run out of inner hair cells by the time you are 10 years old. And these cells don’t regenerate. Fortunately, your hearing cells don’t die spontaneously every day. It is usually an ACTIVE process that kills off hearing cells.
What causes you to lose your inner ear hair cells? It takes some form of trauma to destroy off hair cells and their nerve fiber connections. By far, the most dangerous thing to hair cells is noise exposure, particularly loud sounds over 85 dB! (That is why OSHA/NIOSH limits anything above 85 dB)
Every time you are exposed to loud music and it causes ringing in your ears, or a temporary deafness; you have damaged some hearing hair cells or their corresponding nerve fibers. It is like a tsunami of sound energy bouncing through your cochlea. You might lose twenty or you might lose a few hundred or even a few thousand depending on how loud that noise is. And remember, these hair cells do not regenerate.
That means one loud concert or one explosive shotgun blast can make you deaf or partially deaf for the rest of your life.