Every day in the column "Les evils du everyday", Doctor Jimmy Mohamed takes stock of a disease.
This Tuesday, he returns to the too frequent use of headphones at maximum volume.
He explains the risks involved in this habit and gives us advice on how to protect our ears.
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In the section "the evils of everyday life" in
Sans Rendez-vous
, doctor Jimmy Mohamed takes stock every day on these little everyday
ailments
that can rot life for some time.
This Tuesday, he is interested in the use of headphones and the risks they entail for our ears.
He explains to us the consequences of listening too loudly on a daily basis on our hearing and he gives us valuable advice on how to best combine the pleasure of music and the preservation of our ears.
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"Music allows you to regulate your concentration, reduce your stress and pain. When you are stressed, for example, you will synthesize adrenaline to have the answer, either the fight, or the flight, and cortisone Music helps regulate these two systems Experiments were carried out in operating theaters where patients were made to listen to music and found that they had a lower pain score than the others. and even a calmer heart rate.In fact, surgeons often listen to music in the operating room to de-stress.The music has an extraordinary power, especially anxiolytic.
Avoid prolonged listening at full volume
We must understand that we have cells in our ears, called hair cells, which are more fragile than the cells in our eyes.
So our ears are more fragile than our eyes.
And over time, our cells will gradually disappear and will be responsible for hearing loss from the age of 50.
Except that, by then, you can play on this hearing and therefore obviously if you are permanently with headphones or with headphones, or with prolonged or too loud listening, you risk impairing this hearing.
There are not really any signs when you are losing hearing because you will destroy your ear little by little, without realizing and the first sign of hypoacusia, that is to say of a drop in hearing, it's going to be an annoyance in the noise.
But when you listen to music every day, you are not going to feel anything at all.
On the other hand, what we do know is that if you listen to more than an hour and a quarter or an hour and a half at full volume, your ears will suffer.
What we can offer are simple things like setting to a medium volume and often you have little regulators on your phone telling you that.
And then every 1.5 hours, take a fifteen minute break to let your ears breathe.
It is important to understand that your hearing does not return once lost.
And then there is a now well-established link between hearing problems in the elderly and Alzheimer's disease.
So it's not just a functional gene.
So let's listen to music at a moderate volume, it feels good. "