All human beings need rest to perform perfectly the next day. Given the impossibility of many to achieve deep sleep, there is the option to sleep with headphones to isolate yourself from outside noise or because music helps calm your thoughts.
Overview
As a general rule, Using headphones at moderate volume should not damage your hearing. What’s more, the sounds below 70 decibels (dB) are safe. On the other hand, those that exceed them can damage hearing if listened to for too long. a long timeaccording to the American Hearing Health Foundation (HHF).
According to the information provided, the headphones can reach around 100 dBso a safe level is to set the volume to half the maximum, something that is not usually done when it sounds the favorite song of the person in question.
Negative effects
“Listening at higher volumes for a prolonged period of time can damage hair cells in the cochlea. These cells respond to different frequencies and may lose sensitivity if they are damaged by prolonged exposure to high sound levels,” explains Ashley Kingaudiologist at George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates, a ‘Washington Post‘.
As if that were not enough, if you spend the day wearing the headphones and then use them to sleep, they could retain humidity in the ear canal. In the long term, all this could cause the proliferation of bacteria and the appearance of external ear infections.
Finally, It could also promote wax accumulation, as the audiologist forcefully explains Valerie Pavlovich Ruff. Now, this has an easy solution: use seawater diffusers that allow the softening of the earwax plug at the same time as it self-eliminates it.
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