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Health injuries by noise; Gesundheitsgefahren durch Laerm

Abstract

Within the civilized world, noise is a common danger for health. There is not only the well known hearing loss by occupational noise, but there are also a lot of noise induced hearing losses by noise injuries in private life which are comparable to the occupational ones. The sources of these injuries within private life mostly are unknown and can be found in household goods as well as from listening to loud music. Also the danger from loud cracks mostly is underestimated, so as the cracks from children toys often reach more than 150 dB(Al). Alladay`s noise levels, e.g. in public trafic, also reach dangerous levels, and the sum of all these noise injuries results in a lesion of the cilias of the outer hair cells in the Corti`s organ. The resulting hearing loss is called `sociacusis` and increases the effect of physiological presbyacusis to an amount that results in the fact, that more than 10% of all adults in civilized countries have a severe, handicapping deafness. The immediate effect of noise in this regard is intensified by the effects of disturbing noise onto the psychovegetative and hormonal regulations by chronical stress. So people in civilized countries are going to  More>>
Authors:
Plath, P [1] 
  1. Klinik fuer Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Hals-Chirurgie, Bochum Univ., Prosper-Hospital, Recklinghausen (Germany)
Publication Date:
Jul 01, 1995
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
SCA: 560400; PA: DE-97:0GF875; EDB-97:133785; SN: 97001864193
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Wissenschaft und Umwelt, ISU; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1995
Subject:
56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, APPLIED STUDIES; NOISE POLLUTION; HEALTH HAZARDS; AUDITORY ORGANS; MAN; HUMAN POPULATIONS; SENSE ORGANS DISEASES; BIOLOGICAL STRESS; RISK ASSESSMENT
OSTI ID:
534569
Country of Origin:
Germany
Language:
German
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: WUISD5; ISSN 0170-6977; TRN: DE97GF875
Submitting Site:
DE
Size:
pp. 95-98
Announcement Date:
Nov 04, 1997

Citation Formats

Plath, P. Health injuries by noise; Gesundheitsgefahren durch Laerm. Germany: N. p., 1995. Web.
Plath, P. Health injuries by noise; Gesundheitsgefahren durch Laerm. Germany.
Plath, P. 1995. "Health injuries by noise; Gesundheitsgefahren durch Laerm." Germany.
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title = {Health injuries by noise; Gesundheitsgefahren durch Laerm}
author = {Plath, P}
abstractNote = {Within the civilized world, noise is a common danger for health. There is not only the well known hearing loss by occupational noise, but there are also a lot of noise induced hearing losses by noise injuries in private life which are comparable to the occupational ones. The sources of these injuries within private life mostly are unknown and can be found in household goods as well as from listening to loud music. Also the danger from loud cracks mostly is underestimated, so as the cracks from children toys often reach more than 150 dB(Al). Alladay`s noise levels, e.g. in public trafic, also reach dangerous levels, and the sum of all these noise injuries results in a lesion of the cilias of the outer hair cells in the Corti`s organ. The resulting hearing loss is called `sociacusis` and increases the effect of physiological presbyacusis to an amount that results in the fact, that more than 10% of all adults in civilized countries have a severe, handicapping deafness. The immediate effect of noise in this regard is intensified by the effects of disturbing noise onto the psychovegetative and hormonal regulations by chronical stress. So people in civilized countries are going to become a society of hard hearing subjects, and deafness will become a common peoples` disease. (orig.) [Deutsch] Laerm ist in der zivilisierten Welt ein allgemeines Gesundheitsproblem. Es gibt nicht nur die berufliche Laermschwerhoerigkeit, die gut erforscht ist, sondern schaedlicher Laerm tritt sehr oft auch im Privatleben auf und verursacht Gehoerschaeden, die der beruflich bedingten Laermschwerhoerigkeit vergleichbar sind. Die Gehoergefaehrdung im Privatleben ist oft unbekannt und betrifft neben lauten Geraeten im Haushalt und dem Hoeren zu lauter Musik auch die oft in ihrer Gefaehrlichkeit unterschaetzten Knalle, die selbst bei Kinderspielzeug Spitzenwerte der Pegel von ueber 150 dB(Al) erreichen. Die allgemeine zivilisatorische Laermbelastung, z.B. im oeffentlichen Verkehr, die oft schaedigende Ausmasse erreicht, im Beurteilungspegel aber unter den Grenzwerten bleibt, bewirkt im Laufe der Jahre ebenfalls bleibende Schaeden an der Zilien der aeusseren Haarzellen des Corti-Organs, die eine ueber die physiologische Alterung hinausgehende `Soziakusis` bewirken. Schliesslich haben die staendigen Geraeusch- und Laermbelaestigungen und -stoerungen des Alltagslebens deutliche Effekte auf die neurovegetativen und hormonellen Regulationen des Organismus und verursachen somit mittelbar ueber Stressreaktionen ebenfalls Hoerstoerungen in Form von Hoerstuerzen und Tinnitus. Der alltaegliche Laerm, dem zu wenig Bedeutung zugemessen wird, droht Schwerhoerigkeit, von der mehr als 10% aller Erwachsenen betroffen sind, zur Volkskrankheit werden zu lassen. (orig.)}
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