To protect yourself from losing your ability to hear properly, you should limit the time you use headphones and also control the volume. Pay attention to your daily communication with others. They can pick up wind noise and are more visible than other types. Recent estimates have almost 29 million Americans having a measurable hearing impairment.
Treatment varies from medical intervention of wax removal, pharmaceutical treatment, and/or surgery. Aspirins, macrolide antibiotics and hydrocodone have been studied in the past and are believed to cause mild to serious hearing impairment. The degree and the severity depend on the causative factor. Every three in one thousand babies are born with hearing loss defects.