New Delhi. Nowadays so much technology has come, that many tasks of a person have become easy. Due to these technologies, now you can do any work sitting at home. As time is changing, technology is also improving a lot. However, where in many things technology is harming our body as well. While on one hand things are getting easier, on the other hand, due to these technologies, there is also a wrong effect on the body of the person. Due to mobile phone, many things benefit us, our work has become easy, we can talk to any corner of the world while sitting at home, on the other hand due to mobile, our eyes are affected. At the same time, due to earphones, we get to see its effect in the ear as well. Whether you are listening to music while working out, watching online videos or making calls for work, earbuds have become an important part of our digital world. But as much as we use earbuds or earphones, we have to remember that due to overuse of earphones, we may face infection or any other health hazard. In today’s era, you are getting to see such a problem a lot. More cases of problems are being seen by the people using earphones. Therefore, to avoid this, you should take care of some important things.
An 18-year-old boy from Delhi suffered due to earphones.
Recently, doctors at a Delhi hospital successfully operated on an 18-year-old boy from Gorakhpur, UP, who had lost his hearing due to prolonged use of earphones. Surgery had to be done to help him regain normal hearing. However, not everyone may be so lucky and it is important to be careful, listen to what doctors say and follow some dos and don’ts while using earphones.
Doctors are seeing a sudden spurt in such cases-
ENT experts claimed that this problem has become common among people ever since working from home or using phones to study at home because people use earphones while working or studying from home. The cases of ear infections are on the rise. Especially this problem is seen more in teenagers.
According to the doctor, these are the main reasons-
According to the doctor, the main reason for this is the prolonged use of earphones, which increases the moisture in the ear and leads to infection. Doctors told in an interview, “Like our body, the ear canal also needs ventilation and closing it for a long time leads to accumulation of sweat and infection.”
hearing loss-
The onset of this infection first started with pain and discharge. The treatment went on for months and the boy had two surgeries before coming to Delhi.
This is how infection starts
Doctors said, improper use of earphones leads to local infection reaching the middle ear and mastoid (the bone behind the ear). Often, this infection becomes unresponsive to any medical intervention, affecting the ossicles of the ear and subsequently causing hearing loss.
Sharing earphones is also a cause of ear infection.
The boy told the doctors that apart from working long hours, he had also shared his earphones with his friends. Doctors fear that his condition may worsen. That’s why we should use earphones less to avoid all these.