Not age is the leading cause of hearing loss, but noise. Unless you take
steps now to protect your ears, sooner or later many of you - and your
children - will have difficulty understanding even ordinary speech. Many
people, including 12% to 15% of school-age children, already have
permanent
hearing loss caused by the everyday noise that we take for granted as a fact of life.
While there are myriad regulations to protect people who work in noisy
environments, there are relatively few governing repeated exposure to
noise outside the workplace, from portable music devices, rock concerts,
hair dryers, sirens, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, vacuum cleaners, car
alarms and countless other sources.
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