Ipod Ear Buds Can Cause Tinnitus from Infection Too

Hundreds of millions of people around the world are affected by the facts made clear in recent studies . Listening to one’s Ipod or other personal listening devices have long been known to cause major hearing loss and tinnitus from the exposures to the loud noise when they are used at too high a volume setting. However the new research shows that in addition to this problem is the huge bacterial increase in the inner ears amongst personal sound device users which is cause of inner ear infections.

The earpieces of these personal sound machines are a breeding ground for bacteria and that often leads to painful ear infections,” you don’t have to be an expert to be able to predict this phenomenon.

Physicians have long advised patients especially younger ones that listening to music at high volumes on earphones could lead to hearing loss but now they have proved the earpieces are rife with germs that lead to hearing loss causing infections. These infections can also be spread from user to user when people share the use of these devices.

Harmful bacteria was found on nine out of ten of the ear swabs taken from people who regularly shared their earphones with friends, compared with less than ten per cent of those who shared less frequently or not at all.

The head researcher came to the obvious conclusion that “It is better not to share or else to clean the earphones thoroughly before sharing.”

An additional study which looked into the use of airplane audio headsets, published in the medical journal Laryngoscope, discovered that, after an hour’s use, the number of bacteria increased more than ten fold.

The connection to tinnitus is that ear infections are a major cause of tinnitus according to the tinnitus survey that was conducted among a group of almost two thousand people who suffered from the hearing problem.