Maybe headphones are damaging your hearing?

If you are one of those people who spend most of the day with headphones in your ears, you probably wonder if you are committing a sin with your ears or not. How much do headphones harm us?

If you constantly turn up the volume on your phone, it is possible to cause noise-induced hearing loss. The simple mechanics go like this: When a single blast of very loud noise travels down your ear canal, it hits your eardrum.

The eardrum vibrates, also triggering vibrations in tiny muscles in the middle ear, which create fluid waves in a deep structure called the cochlea. These waves move microscopic hairs, which convert the sound into electrical impulses that go to the brain, telling it what you're hearing. Big waves can damage small hairs and they never grow back.

By comparison, sudden and repeated exposure to noise above 85 decibels causes hearing loss. 

Noise-induced hearing loss does not lead to true deafness, but it can cause permanent damage. If you find yourself struggling to hear conversations, or you turn up the TV volume too much, it's a sign that you're overusing your headphones. The best way to protect your ears is to keep the volume at reasonable levels.