Hearing Loss

[Grant Richter]

Many sources of hearing loss are environmental related.
Lawn mowers, small gasoline engines, motorcycles, power tools
are all sources of loud environmental noise. Typically you have
a much greater exposure to these sources than music.

Another element is ontotoxic medicines. A surprising number of medicines
are poisonous to the inner ear (including antibiotics and ibuprofen).
And so are many common solvents.

The Tinnitus FAQ at

http://www.cccd.edu/faq/tinnitus.html

is a major resource on tinnitus and hearing loss.
The link under "Prevention/Protection" has a list of ontotoxic substances,
and reviews of different types of hearing protection.

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> From: jbv <jbv.silences at wanadoo.fr>
> To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject: Re: Hearing Loss 
> Date: Saturday, May 29, 1999 12:43 PM
> 
> patchell :
> 
> > The only good thing about my hearing now is I can no longer hear the
> > horizontal oscilator squeal that comes out of TV sets.
> 
> Same experience here. And I remember feeling terribly sad the day I
realized
> (around 30)
> that I couldn't hear the TV oscillator anymore... As if something was
gone
> forever...
> 
> jbv