Unfortunate Hearing Damage may be caused by several types of damage and often will be damage that can never be fixed. Riding the train to work with your headphones in for example could make it all clearer to you at the time but the forces you are placing on your ears can cause lasting damage.

Noise pollution could be one of the biggest reason for hearing damage and is more common in areas that are heavily industrialized. Living next to the train lines can mean you are hearing sound peaks of over 65db everyday of your life, this can cause sudden hearing loss.

Hearing Damage is measured in percentages which are recorded by exposing your ears to a collection of different frequency levels. You could possibly have only suffered loss within a certain collection of frequency levels which would make the condition seem less extreme than it really is. High Frequency Hearing Loss is a perfect example.

In more consistent cases of damage it would not be measured by the amount of sound you hear, but rather the way your ear processes those sounds. Your inner ear has an organ called the cochlea, which controls the way you process sound and is especially susceptible to damage from outside sources.

In this case it would appear that as far as you knew your hearing is normal but one of the main symptoms is that would struggle to understand what people are saying to you if background noise was present. To explain these symptoms better there is a condition that is commonly known as the cocktail party effect. What this breaks down to is that you cannot distinguish the sound of someone else’s voice from any other sound in the room. It is characterized by this complete lack of ability to distinguish background noise from actual speech.



There is a long list of diseases out there that can damage your hearing beyond repair. Fetal alcohol syndrome may cause hearing loss in up to 64% of children born to alcoholic mothers though sometimes this can be countered. More common diseases such as measles and meningitis have also been known to cause some form of hearing loss.

Another common cause of damaged hearing is physical damage. It would be all too easy to damage your ear in an accident. Sometimes as little as a knock can alter your hearing, especially if there is already a defect present.

Hearing damage can appear at any time and be an easy ailment to acquire. making a choice to live sensibly can be your first step to prevent any damage you may cause to your ears. staying clear of loud areas would always the sensible choice but if this is unavoidable make sure you carry ample protection, a pair of earplugs for example, to avoid hearing impairment.
Many governments now have health guidelines that cover loss of hearing as a health hazard and because of this many companies are now forced to present methods of correct protection when using their products. If a machine you are using recommends you to use ear protection then you can bet that it states this for a reason.