Who is more harmful to ears, ordinary earphones or in-ear earphones?

(The above picture shows ordinary earphones; The following figure shows in-ear headphones.) First, the damage caused by listening to earphones belongs to chronic sound damage. The damage of sound to hearing is called noise deafness in medicine. Noise deafness is mainly divided into chronic sound injury and acute sound injury: A. Chronic sound injury: refers to slow sensorineural deafness caused by long-term exposure to noise stimulation. B. Acute sound injury: It is caused by close explosion (such as bomb explosion nearby during war) and is caused by instantaneous exposure of high-intensity impulse noise. II. Noise Intensity and Exposure Time The severity of noise damage to hearing is mainly determined by noise intensity and exposure time. The greater the intensity, the Read More …

A Simple Way to Protect Ears When Aircraft Lift and Lift

With the development of high-speed rail, the aviation field has been facing more and more challenges. However, based on China’s vast territory, astonishing population base and the people’s continuously enriched wallets, planes will still be one of the common ways of traveling for ordinary people in the foreseeable decades. There are always some friends around, Because of the need to become a trapeze artist, Every time I struggle with flying, either the air traffic control delays the flight or I go abroad to take economy class for more than ten hours, which is extremely painful. However, more and more people complain to me that when flying up or down, they always feel uncomfortable in their ears, feel earplugs, and have Read More …

Who is more harmful to ears, ordinary earphones or in-ear earphones?

(The above picture shows ordinary earphones; The following figure shows in-ear headphones.) First, the damage caused by listening to earphones belongs to chronic sound damage. The damage of sound to hearing is called noise deafness in medicine. Noise deafness is mainly divided into chronic sound injury and acute sound injury: A. Chronic sound injury: refers to slow sensorineural deafness caused by long-term exposure to noise stimulation. B. Acute sound injury: It is caused by close explosion (such as bomb explosion nearby during war) and is caused by instantaneous exposure of high-intensity impulse noise. II. Noise Intensity and Exposure Time The severity of noise damage to hearing is mainly determined by noise intensity and exposure time. The greater the intensity, the Read More …

[Reminder] from Earwax: You can’t pull it out if you want.

Have you ever pulled out earwax? Have you ever gone to the hospital because of earwax? In the outpatient clinic of otolaryngologists, patients often come to see a doctor because of ear itching, ear pain and ear tightness, a large part of which is caused by excessive or improper ear wax removal. Therefore, the author of this article combines his own clinical theory and practice to talk about earwax. Earwax is what? What is it? Earwax, medically called cerumen, is a substance secreted by the skin glands of the ear canal, mixed with dust and dandruff. Earwax is divided into two types, one is dry cerumen and the other is wet cerumen, which is commonly known as [oil ear]. [oil Read More …