Listening to the cool breeze with headphones decreases hearing.
Patients with sudden deafness often have two obvious age characteristics, one is white-collar workers in their thirties and forties, and the other is teenagers who often listen to headphones. Before returning to China for treatment due to hearing impairment, 12-year-old Xiaofeng, who grew up in Canada, had the same hobbies as her local peers, one of which was listening to headphones. Children of his age like songs with strong rhythm and loud music. In order to better indulge in the music atmosphere, Xiaofeng always turns on his headphones loudly, whether it's an MP3 player on the road or a computer when playing games. Earphones rarely leave his ears. Because music often drifts from headphones to the environment, Xiaofeng is even repeatedly accused by other passengers in the car.
One night, Xiaofeng took a shower, her hair was wet, and she turned on the cold air conditioner to listen to headphones, and she fell asleep unconsciously. When he woke up the next morning, he took off his headphones and found that something seemed to be stuffed in his ears, and he could no longer hear clearly.
Deafness induced by staying up late and "sound pollution"
Dr. Shen Weidong, deputy director of the Rehabilitation Center of Shuguang Hospital affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that from the clinical point of view, patients with sudden deafness caused by work pressure, life pressure, emotional stimulation and urban noise pollution are on the increase. More and more patients are young people, and almost 60% patients are young white-collar workers, especially young and middle-aged mental workers, company employees and students.
There are four main reasons for the rapid increase of sudden deafness:
First of all, modern people generally live an abnormal life. Most people are overtired and stay up all night surfing the Internet, which leads to the decline of the immune function of their ears. Listening to the cold wind blowing through headphones will lead to the invasion of wind evil and cold evil, and it is not surprising that sudden deafness occurs.
Secondly, urban noise pollution has increased. Many unheard-of sounds, including the low-frequency noise of computers and many electronic devices, will always damage people's hearing.
Third, the mental stress is too heavy, such as the pressure of study and work, and many college entrance examination students even suddenly become deaf with their parents.
Fourthly, stimulated by psychological factors, many patients, the night before onset, worked late, and their boss denied their copy. I began to feel dizzy the next day, and gradually became tinnitus and even deafness a few days later. (According to Evening News)
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Take a rest with your ears every half hour.
In order to prevent sudden deafness, experts call on young people not to listen to MP3 for too long at first. Excessive use of headphones will cause children's hearing to decline to varying degrees, even if it does not lead to deafness. If you continue to use headphones, you should take them off every half hour to give your ears a proper rest. After continuous fatigue, you should protect your ears from acoustic stimulation in noisy environments such as bars. Because sudden tinnitus and deafness are difficult to cure, the commonly used treatment at present is to increase the oxygen uptake in the ear, but the effect is usually not obvious. Acupuncture can help dredge meridians and improve inner ear function, but the therapeutic effect on some patients is also different. Experts remind that the best prevention method is to be alert to the harbinger of sudden deafness. Stay up late or when you are tired and nervous, if you have tinnitus, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms, you should go to a specialized hospital in time. Because 20 to 40 years old is the high incidence age of sudden deafness, young white-collar workers should attach great importance to it.