According to a survey by Holland researchers, although many teenagers and kids understand that the high volume of MP3 players causes damage to their hearing, they are still reluctant to reduce the volume as they listen to MP3 players or other audio & video media players.
Another investigation made by Deafness Research UK showed that over one third of the 1,000 people questioned in the poll said they had ringing in the ear, a sign of damage to hearing, after listening to loud music.
Kids or teenagers have less self-control, and sometimes they couldn't be aware that how terrible their lives would turn to if they lost their hearing. As the guardian of children, parents should pay more attention to their loved's indecent ways to use MP3 and other media players. Cheap and high-end MP3 are easily found in the stores of retail/wholesale MP3 player, but they are not comparable to the health of your kids' ear.
Once your kids appear ringing in the ear, faded voice or other symptoms, parents should take measures to reduce their kids exposure to various noises, like electronics devices, MP3, clubs, etc. In the daily life, parents could tell kids to obey the following rules when they listen to MP3 players:
1. 60-60 rule. The first 60 refers that do not listen to MP3 player at more than 60 percent of maximum volume while the other means that do not listen to it for more than 60 minutes at a time.
2. Take advantage of speakers instead of earphone as often as possible. India researchers found that music listeners using earphones have thousands times bacteria inside ears than those dont, as earphones help the bacteria create a warm and wet home.
3. Dont share earphone with other kids or teenagers and don't use one side of earphone to listen to music.
Electronics gadgets make our life more colorful and wonderful, but it also brings some chic digital illness. Except the above hearing problems caused by MP3 or other media players, there are a lot of others like mobile phone elbow and playstation palm. Kids are much more vulnerable than us. Banning them from using is unwise. What parents should do is to teach them how to appropriate make use of them.
As a world-famous China wholesale electronics dropshipper, ActFind alerts parents who intend to buy MP3 players for their children that inappropriate use of MP3 easily causes kids early deafness.
