Hi Subramani Although I personally don't like to use a head phone, I rescently happend to see a headphone which was less irritating.
The headphone rests on your ear, and one has to wear it, similarly, to wearing a spectacles. You can also wear both the spectacles and this earphone as well. Harish. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Subramani L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Fw: Hearing loss. > Quite a chilling stuff. BTW, I hope some of you remember my enquiries a > few months ago about the effects of head phone usage, as I have been > using headphones at my work place. > > I experienced very severe ear pains for sometime and with my wife's > advice, had replaced the ordinary headphone with a > noice-cancellation-based one, which also has a volume control system. > Now, though it isn't entirely alright, I feel much comfortable. > > Subramani > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harish > Kotian > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 3:59 PM > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in > Subject: [AI] Fw: Hearing loss. > > *********************** > No virus was detected in the attachment no filename > > Your mail has been scanned by InterScan. > ***********-*********** > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: P. Subramani > To: Harish Kotian > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:32 AM > Subject: Hearing loss. > > > Dear Harish, Please find the information below on the above subject. > I feel since most blind use headphones, this item could be useful. If > you feel so, please send the information to the AI list. About 8 years > ago, I saw a TV news program alerting that a college > student came to an ear specialist. The attending doctor shook his > head because he couldn't find the reason or cause of the young > patient who was losing his hearing capability rapidly. > > The young man visited several hospitals seeking for help, because he > nearly lost his hearing capability. > > Responding to the TV news, one of private research institute offered > to study the young man in exchange with publication in a certain > company advertisement. > > The research group conducted the case and concluded that the college > student was a music lover who was using high fidelity loudspeaker > amplifiers. Since the time he enjoyed listening jazz and pop music > with the latest model of amplifier, he became the victim of modern > life. > > Some amplifiers produce strange sounds or frequencies that destroy > several parts of the body. Once again, the news went around and many > inquires came to several research groups. > > Yes, we knew now that many headphone users among music lovers are > reportedly having some hearing difficulties. > > We believe that some frequencies and loud sounds coming from the > earphones make the eardrum to be thickened reducing hearing > capabilities. Most patients who have difficulties in hearing are due > to them using portable music players like the above photo, especially > at high frequency and middle frequency of about 400 Hz and lower > frequency of about 100 Hz below. We understood that eardrums do not > respond nor vibrate due to the thickening of eardrums, and this is > one of the new strains of illness in modern age. > > There is nothing wrong with portable music players. It is only > because users set their music players to a high volume that can > destroy their eardrum. That is how doctors comment. > > However, in some cases of music lover who lost almost all his hearing > capability was not only because of loud sound. Some loud sound Hi-Fi > amplifiers produce strange sounds or frequencies that destroy not > only eardrums but also internal organs. Do you believe that? > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i > n > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
