DrSugar is in the house! This week she’s teaching us all how to protect our hearing. Ever wonder if listening to your portable music player of choice could be detrimental to your hearing? New research, published in the International Journal of Audiology and reported by WebMD , suggests that up to one-fourth of college students may have evidence of early hearing loss and that it’s possible that portable music players may play a role. The researchers made

this discovery after recruiting college students with normal hearing for a study on whether the use of portable music players can lead to temporary hearing loss. Several of the students who reported normal hearing were actually found to have signs of hearing loss when tested formally. To learn more about hearing loss and its possible correlation to portable music players, keep reading!

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DrSugar Explains How Easy It Is to Lose Your Hearing