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| Young people are at risk for permanent hearing loss, the World Health Organization warns. One of the main culprits is loud music on smartphones. (Mireya Acierto/Getty Images) |
by Christopher Labos, CBC News,
6 April 2015
Loud music with street noise can cause permanent hearing loss
Generation after generation, teenagers have been told by their forebears to turn down that music. Now there seems to be a good medical reason to do so.
The World Health Organization warned in a recent report that over a billion young people are at risk for permanent hearing loss. One of the main culprits is a widely used device for listening to music — the smartphone.
"Anything where you're putting sound into the eardrum, that's something as a society that we need to take a closer look at," says Rex Banks, chief audiologist at the Canadian Hearing Society.
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