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Article: Noise-induced hearing loss. Can kids hear what they're missing?
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- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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Parents know how loud children's play can get. But what some parents don't know is that the same din that makes their own ears dull can damage the hearing of the little howlers themselves. According to P. E. Brookhouser, otolaryngologist and director of Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, "Noise encountered in play can harm small ears as seriously as job-related noises impair the hearing of adults." In his 1992, study of 114 children from one-to-19-years-old, 42 experienced hearing loss in one ear and the remaining 72 demonstrated a loss in both. Like the "more than 20 million Americans, including children, regularly exposed to noise loud enough to cause ...