Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

Introduction: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

Hearing can be damaged by loud noise. It can be from a single loud noise or from chronic exposure to loud noises over time.

Symptoms of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

• Early symptoms include:
  • Temporary hearing loss - resolving within a few hours
  • Feeling of fullness of the ear
  • Ringing in the ears
• Gradual hearing loss - if exposed to noise over a period of time.

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Medical Textbooks Online about Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Noise-Induced Hearing Loss?

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Causes of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

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Treatments for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

• Avoid further noise exposure - see prevention measures
• Hearing aids
• See treatment of hearing loss

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Reseach about Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

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Clinical Trials for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss include:

• Study of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)

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Prevention of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

Prevention information for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss.

• Avoid noise exposure
• Ear plugs
• Ear muffs
• High-tech ear muffs - newer ear muffs can avoid hearing damage will still conveying certain other sounds.
• Noise reduction measures - changes to the workplace if possible

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Definitions of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss:

Hearing loss due to exposure to explosive loud noise or chronic exposure to sound level greater than 85 dB. The hearing loss is often in the frequency range 4000-6000 hertz. - (Source - Diseases Database)

Noise-Induced Hearing Loss is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Noise-Induced Hearing Loss, or a subtype of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)