How Noise Can Affect Your Health
Simply put, noise
can damage your hearing! Exposure to excessive noise raises your hearing threshold
-- the degree of loudness at which you first begin to hear.
There are two types
of hearing loss:
There are warning
signs that may be indicative of permanent hearing loss, including:
There is NO CURE for hearing loss caused by noise.
Hearing aids do not restore noise-damaged hearing, although they may help most people.
Inaddition to
hearing loss, excessive noise exposure may contribute to mental and physical stress,
certain illnesses, and accidents.
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