Are headphones harmful to humans?
Many wonder about the safety of using a headset for mobile phones. How does it affect health and affects the organ of hearing in particular? Is it harmful to listen to music with headphones? Let us see which devices have the least negative impact and which security measures need to be applied.
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Effect of music on the hearing aid
Modern society makes extensive use of headphones in everyday life. Many people like to listen to music in the transport on the way to work or home, to charge a positive from cheerful chords. But, unfortunately, they do not always know how to use them correctly, so as not to harm their health. Listening to music through headphones is not dangerous, it is important at what volume to do it.Loud acoustics with prolonged exposure can create health problems. A powerful sound wave can traumatize the eardrum, because it creates a strong pressure on the auditory nerve.
The ultimate noise safety threshold is 70 dB. But, if you get involved in listening to audio recordings with the maximum permissible sound for a long time, it can lead to hearing loss.
Modern smartphones can provide sound volume up to 120 dB, but it is more designed for the ability to enhance the sound if the recording is not kept in the best quality. In addition, increasing the sound, the screen will danger warning for hearing loud sound. And already each user of the smartphone independently makes the decision on the volume level for comfortable listening.
What devices are the most harmful
Many people believe that plug-in (vacuum) headphones are the most dangerous, since they are closest to the eardrum. In addition, they completely fill the ear canal, creating a vacuum. Indeed, if you listen to music at full volume, the negative effect will be higher than in other headphones. But on the other hand, such a device has the best sound insulation and reduces to “no” the ambient sound and noise, so users rarely have to set the sound to maximum. To maintain health, you can control the volume and ensure safe listening to your favorite tunes.
Whether vacuum headphones are harmful, a controversial issue - it all depends on the selected volume of sound.
Overhead headphones, perhaps, are among the most dangerous. Usually, the melody of such headphones is heard not only by those who are in them, but also by the people around them. Due to the low sound insulation, the carriers turn them on at full capacity to drown out the extraneous noise. As a result, pressure on the auditory nerve increases, which can lead to deafness during prolonged use.
Is Bluetooth Headset Dangerous?
New technologies allow using a headset not only to listen to music, but also to talk on the phone. Wireless headphones are in demand among businessmen and those who are always behind the wheel. Their main advantages are in the following parameters:
- There are no constantly tangling wires.
- esthetic fashionable look.
- convenient in use, well located in the auricle.
- applicable to all mobile phones with bluetooth.
- long service life.
But what you have to pay for such obvious advantages? How do bluetooth headphones affect human health? The developers argue that the power of the device is much less power than the cell. When talking on the phone, the harm is 20 times higher than the use of wireless headphones, so wearing a bluetooth headset is not dangerous, it is important not to do it all the time.
Since the bluetooth headset is a tool that allows you to receive and transmit a 2.4 KHz signal, an electromagnetic field is created around the carrier.
From a medical point of view, abuse of the device can cause headaches, causing nervousness and irritability. And regularity, together with the duration of operation of such a device, in ten years can lead to cancer. Bluetooth creates an electromagnetic field even In standbytherefore, it is extremely important to take it off at least in less active hours of employment. Dozing the load on the brain, periodically removing the headset from the ear, you can stay in trend, while reducing the risk to health.
Ways to reduce the negative impact of headphones.
Not everyone, buying headphones, wonders about security.It is ignorance and leads to injury of the hearing aid. The younger generation is particularly affected - the most frequent users of such portable devices. There is a way out of this situation, and it is as follows:
- do not turn on the sound at full volume;
- choose headphones with high noise insulation;
- do not use on a regular basis and take breaks while listening.
Using quality headphones, the source of sound reproduction and good audio recording the risk of harming yourself is minimized.