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It’s often hard to tell if you actually have hearing loss, especially if you’re not looking for it. With the increase in personal music players and in-ear headphones with high volume potential, larger numbers of young people are damaging their hearing every day. Those are the people least likely to pick up on the fact that they are suffering from hearing loss. To many people it’s just a case of turning the volume up a little, which wouldn’t seem like much cause for alarm. The major issues come in because over time you continue to increase the volume to compensate for the slight issue and the damage becomes cumulative. As the time passes and you stop realising how loud the music or television, it becomes easier to rationalise the need for increased volume. At this point, it normally takes an outsider to point out that the volume you think is perfectly normal is actually extremely loud to other people. This is a key indicator that you’re suffering from some degree of hearing loss. Other aspects to pay close attention to is the ability to communicate in a club or loud restaurant, since the different layers of noise can make it hard for someone will low level hearing loss to distinguish one conversation. Not being able to hear in a club isn’t an automatic signal that you have hearing loss, but being in an environment where the sound is so loud that you cannot hear a conversation is likely to do some damage to your hearing. If you regularly spend time in environments like that, then the chances that you are suffering from hearing loss increase exponentially. Its often factors that one rarely considers that can lead to a loss of hearing over time, particularly work related noise. While construction workers and builders wear hearing protection gear, the office workers who work near the construction are highly unlikely to do so. Even though they are inside an office building, a sustained amount of loud noise can lead to mild effects on their hearing. This is heightened if office work and construction are happening within their office building or on their floor. Since younger people believe, incorrectly, that hearing loss only happens to older people, it’s highly unlikely that they will go for regular hearing tests or checkups. This can prevent hearing loss from being detected in early stages where steps can be taken to lessen the impact over time. Instead it can be years before they first consider the possibility of hearing loss, but which time the damage is likely to be severe.
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