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| Nine out of ten young people have experienced the first signs of hearing damage after listening to loud music on a night out, a charity warns. | Nine out of ten young people have experienced the first signs of hearing damage after listening to loud music on a night out, a charity warns. |
| The RNID says more should wear ear plugs to protect their hearing, without spoiling their appreciation of music. | The RNID says more should wear ear plugs to protect their hearing, without spoiling their appreciation of music. |
| However, it says there is a reluctance to wear them because they look unappealing. | However, it says there is a reluctance to wear them because they look unappealing. |
| It is launching a competition to encourage design students to come up with more fashionable alternatives. | It is launching a competition to encourage design students to come up with more fashionable alternatives. |
| If you keep exposing yourself to loud music repeatedly you will cause damage to your hearing over time Donna TippingRNID | If you keep exposing yourself to loud music repeatedly you will cause damage to your hearing over time Donna TippingRNID |
| Leading design agencies will offer work placements to those students with the most impressive ideas. | Leading design agencies will offer work placements to those students with the most impressive ideas. |
| Experts say prolonged exposure to noise over 85 decibels will harm hearing over time. | Experts say prolonged exposure to noise over 85 decibels will harm hearing over time. |
| Music played in concerts, bars and clubs is often above this level. | Music played in concerts, bars and clubs is often above this level. |
| Persistant ringing | |
| Donna Tipping, from the RNID, said the first signs of hearing damage include a slight buzzing in the ears, dullness and flatness of sound, and in some cases a more persistent ringing. | Donna Tipping, from the RNID, said the first signs of hearing damage include a slight buzzing in the ears, dullness and flatness of sound, and in some cases a more persistent ringing. |
| HOW NOISY? Vacuum cleaner: 70 decibelsPneumatic drill: 110 decibelsPlane taking off (100m away): 130 decibelsLoud music in clubs: 130 decibels | |
| She said: "They will go away after a little while, but if you keep exposing yourself to loud music repeatedly you will cause damage to your hearing over time." | She said: "They will go away after a little while, but if you keep exposing yourself to loud music repeatedly you will cause damage to your hearing over time." |
| A RNID surveyed young people aged 16-30 and found a third thought ear plugs looked silly, and would not consider wearing them. Only 3% did wear ear plugs on a regular basis. | A RNID surveyed young people aged 16-30 and found a third thought ear plugs looked silly, and would not consider wearing them. Only 3% did wear ear plugs on a regular basis. |
| Audiologist Angela King said: "If you are in the sort of noise level that you get in a busy street, where you have to raise your voice to talk to somebody, you would have to be in that sort of noise for a long time, most of the working week on a regular basis, for it to be a real risk to hearing. | |
| "But in clubs you can get noise levels over 100 decibels, and you can only safely be in that sort of noise level for less than two hours a week." | |
| Christopher Woods, a musician from Birmingham who is training to be a sound engineer, has already, at the age of just 21, experienced damage to his hearing caused by playing and listening to loud music. | |
| He said: "The damage is permanent. I have been told my hearing will never improve. | |
| "Many people who have been working in the industry for a long time have a sustained level of hearing loss, and it is too late." |