Coming on the heels of its recent feature about Hearing Aids, Consumer Reports has added to its Health website a section “Protect Your Ears from Noise.” They note that 15% of American teenagers are showing early signs of hearing loss and quote Dr. Brian Fligor of Children’s Hospital in Boston, who said “We are prematurely aging our ears.”
There’s an 88-second video on how to use earplugs for hearing protection, but it is not captioned. Links from the page to these sections:
- What you can do
- How loud is it?
- A caution about MP3 players
Check it out at http://tinyurl.com/lq72bn
- Thanks to NVRC, Fairfax
