The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog

A study in Belgium has validated what many of us have observed – young people aren’t taking care of their hearing:

Annick Gilles, research audiologist at the University Hospital of Antwerp, who is doing her doctoral research about tinnitus has discovered that it is increasingly common among young people in Belgium.

Tinnitus occurs in all walks of life. In adults the prevalence is around fifteen percent, and probably even higher for those in the music industry. Gilles has done a large-scale epidemiological survey among 4,000 young people aged 14 to 25. 85 percent of young people have after noise exposure suffer from temporary tinnitus. Usually it’s the next morning, but fifteen percent have tinnitus permanently. Further research showed that “fifteen to twenty percent of adolescents had permanent hearing loss,” says Gilles.