Listening to iPod for an hour ‘can damage hearing’

Cranking up your iPod or MP3 player even for an hour daily can cause irreparable damage to your hearing, a new study has claimed.

Scientists in Europe have shown that listening to music on headphones for an hour can have a temporary impact on people’s hearing because of the damage caused to the hair cells in the outer ear.

Participants in the study had their hearing tested and were then asked to listen to pop or rock music for six one hour long sessions using two different types of headphones and at varying, preset volumes, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ reported.

After each session, the scientists measured the responses of the 21 men and women aged between 19 and 28 to a very short sound and then two sounds of different frequencies to see how clearly participants could hear the tones.

A control group of 14 people of the same ages was used to compare the results.

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