Posted on 02/05/2023 8:33:31 AM PST by ConservativeMind
If you live near a busy road, it may increase your stress levels and affect your sleep. When we are under stress and sleep poorly, we may be at a higher risk of developing tinnitus.
In a study, researchers have found that the more traffic noise residents are exposed to in their homes, the more they are at risk of developing tinnitus.
Tinnitus is most clearly manifested by annoying whistling tones in the ears, which are disturbing for many.
It is the first time that researchers have found a link between residential traffic noise exposure and hearing-related outcomes.
"In our data, we have found that for every ten decibels more noise in people's home, the risk of developing tinnitus increases by six percent," says Manuella Lech Cantuaria, Ph.D.
"There is a need for more focus on the importance of traffic noise for health. It is alarming that noise seems to increase the risk of tinnitus, cardiovascular diseases and dementia, among other diseases," says Jesper Hvass Schmidt.
"We know that traffic noise can make us stressed and affect our sleep. And that tinnitus can get worse when we live under stressful situations and we do not sleep well," Jesper Hvass Schmidt says.
The researchers believe that noise at nighttime can be even worse for health
"It affects our sleep, which is so important for restoring both our physical and mental health. Therefore, it is worth considering whether you can do something to improve your sleep," Manuella Lech Cantuaria says.
Higher associations were found when noise was measured at the quiet side of their houses, that is, the side facing away from the road. This is where most people would place their bedroom whenever possible, therefore researchers believe this is a better indicator of noise during sleep.
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Today we know that researchers lie to please the people who pay them. I find the link doubtful. Did they look at other factors, such as excessive ear wax?
The folks who did this research have too much time on their hands.
I doubt it, but Ok. Let’s collect the data.
While we’re at it, how about infrasound?
I just got done walking a mile (again) trying to ascertain the source of the obnoxious hum poisoning my home.
Working on a technology tool to isolate it...
Got mine from the jab.
They don’t even mention that the jab caused over 13,000 cases.
Your refrigerator could be the culprit. Not kidding.
The person who finally figures out how to eliminate tinnitus will win a well-deserved Nobel Prize.
I wish it was that simple.
Absolutely, positively not originating from within my house. I can ‘hear’ it at various points outside, but with infrasound it’s difficult to isolate. It does come & go and I’m convinced it’s probably somebody’s HVAC in the area, but it could be anything.
Ironically, it literally JUST NOW ceased while typing (no joke).
Maddening, but the traffic noise is WELCOME!!!
Bkmk
"So often you don't even notice it."
I doubt that
You would.
Sound I hear outside my house on a regular basis:
Vehicle accelerating like mad from the stop sign.
Sounds I haven’t heard yet:
A horn blaring and crunching sheet metal.
It’s coming.
All those stereotypes about Virginia drivers being a bunch of nutjobs are truth.
I’m not an acoustics expert but it could TWO sources of sound converging at your house. Have you asked any neighbors if they hear the same thing or would that cause them to think you are crazy?
We’re so close to I-75 that we can read the side panels of the trucks. It is noisy! It bothers me all the time, but when I had Covid is was intolerable. No tinnitus yet, though.
Please show documentation
Whew...all this time I thought it was unmuffled car races, machine shops, front row seats at rock concerts, homemade explosives, firing rifles without hearing protection, power plants, and unmuffled lawn mowers in my stupid young years.
What about the often-recommended white noise as a sleep aid? Is that causing tinnitus?
Trust me - as likewise not an ‘expert’, but an amateur audio engineer who took to designing/building subwoofers of a type simply not on the consumer market - it’s assuredly a summing of waves. The irony is that I believe it was somewhat self-inflicted: I ventilated my house last year with gable vent/fan and that’s about when the most regular ‘sound’ began. Worse, a detectable ‘hum’ in the 10-15hz range manifests when my gable fan is on, purely from airflow through my rafters. Maddening, in a word.
It worsens when the local train trestle gets freight traffic and when certain types of vehicles pass through the area, but there’s one singular source of infrasound you can ‘sense’ at certain spots in a walkabout of the surrounding area and which is nearly constant in parts of my house.
I’m exploring whether I can build some Helmholtz chambers out of Sonotubes small enough to fit in my crawlspace to effectively trap the waves before they reverberate in the living space. But absent finding the source - and doing anything about it - it’s just another motivation toward the property I desire a bit farther out of the area and more isolate (where I’m at was intended to be transitory, <5 years, but 2 more years of this is nearly unbearable without mitigation, which might include disabling of my new gable fan just to keep my sanity).
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