It’s hardly a spoiler alert to tell you the world is a noisy place. From sports venues and restaurants to cineplexes and city streets, loudness is trending. Yet, according to a 2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 70 percent of people exposed to loud noise “never or seldom wear hearing protection.”
And who can blame us? We (hopefully) protect our hearing if we work in a noisy environment. But who thinks to (or wants to) wear ear plugs just going about our daily lives?
Maybe we should — because the Center for Disease Control estimates that 53 percent of us with hearing damage do not have noisy jobs. In fact, according to the CDC, one in four of us, 25 percent of us, already have hearing damage and we don’t even know it yet.
Remember to always protect your hearing. Contact us at Purchase Ear Technology to schedule a hearing test by calling (270) 558-3996 or stop by our office located at 2008 Broadway St, Paducah, KY 42001.