NOISE DESTROYS
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NOISE DESTROYS
Tips on protecting your hearing
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Noise is everywhere• At home
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At WorkAt work….
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At play…..
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All sounds don’t hurt your ears…..
• What matters is….
• HOW LOUD
• And HOW LONG
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Overexposure to noise damages tiny nerve endings
inside the ear
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Damage begins in the HIGH pitch region
• ABOVE the speech frequencies
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As the damage progresses…
• It will work its way down to eventually affect the speech frequencies
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By the time you begin to notice the hearing loss, • You have a VERY WELL
DEVELOPED hearing loss
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SO……..• It sneaks up on you…you don’t
know you have it until you have a lot of it!
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Noise induced hearing loss affects the QUALITY of the
sound Rather than the LOUDNESS
If you think of your ear like a stereo, it is like fiddling with the equalizer
NOT like turning down the volume
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Turning it up may make it LOUDER
• BUT… it will not make it CLEARER
• Kind of like turning up the volume on a blown speaker…it will still sound bad
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Hearing aids help but do NOT cure
• Hearing aids are amplifiers, the problem with noise induced hearing loss is not loudness but CLARITY.
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The KEY thing is• PROTECTION and PREVENTION
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May is BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH month
PROTECT YOUR HEARING!!!
You only have one set of ears that must last you a LIFETIME!
Don’t miss out on the sounds of life!