New Year's Eve popping ears with new app and earplugs to protect against tinnitus

With app and earplugs: How to protect the ears from tinnitus
Many people are regularly exposed to noise at work. And even at major events such as concerts, the ears are often burdened enormously. This can lead to hearing damage. With the help of a new app and earplugs you can protect yourself.

High noise pollution causes hearing damage
At the turn of the year is again warned of health hazards through the New Year's Eve fireworks. Bolts and rockets can cause injuries and burns. And the noise associated with the fireworks is an enormous burden on the ears. Excessive noise is often the cause of tinnitus and hearing loss. If you want to protect yourself, ear plugs and a new app can help.

Whether at work, at a concert or because of the fireworks: we are often exposed to excessive noise. A new app and earplugs can help protect your ears from hearing damage. (Image: olly / fotolia.com)

Avoid loud environments
To protect the ears from tinnitus, avoid very noisy environments. However, the noise level of an environment is often difficult to assess. In addition, people who are often exposed to heavy noise, such as at work, often underestimate how loud the environment really is.

Here it can help to measure the noise level in the environment from time to time with the smartphone, reports the magazine "Neue Apotheken Illustrierte". This is possible with the free LärmApp of the German Professional Association of Otolaryngologists.

"Exposed to a constant background noise"
"Today, we are exposed to constant noise, either through workplace noise, environmental noise, music and other media, voluntarily or involuntarily. Rarely is there a place of complete rest, "explained Dr. Dirk Heinrich, president of the ENT professional association in a communication.

The experts have therefore initiated the development of a LärmApp to make people aware of this situation.

Earplugs at loud concerts
"With the LärmApp we would like to sensitize especially young people for the problem" noise "," Dr. Heinrich. "It would be a big step if it encourages some users to consciously seek rest periods each day."

The app shows with the help of a traffic light, whether the environment is already dangerously loud, or when the ears should be granted a break.

People who are often at concerts and festivals will be advised by health experts to wear ear plugs and give their ears a rest after heavy noise exposure.

Doctor's visit does not delay long
For tinnitus and similar problems you should not delay the visit to the doctor.

"If ear noises suddenly appear with a strong intensity, or if the distances become ever shorter, then the ENT specialist should be consulted within 24 hours," Dr. Michael Bohndorf, ENT specialist in Dusseldorf, in a conversation in which he gave important answers on the subject of tinnitus. (Ad)