Latest studies states that every 1 out of 5 teenage people is suffering from the hearing loss problem, a slight increase is seen from 15 years.

Research has carried out on 4,600 teenagers between age group 12 to 19 years, one team collected data from 1988 to 1994, and another from 2005 to 2006.When compared with this two data’s people suffering form-hearing loss raised to 77percent.When coming to children 1 out of 20 children in this age group had slight hearing loss. However, one interesting thing here is girls were likely to have less hearing loss than boys.

However, this study did not take in to account about the reasons that causes hearing loss, they stated that listening to the songs on IPod or mobiles is main cause for all hearing problems.

“That’s a huge jump in hearing loss,” said in statement by Dr. Lawrence Lustig, director of otology and neurotology at UCSF. “You really need to start doing some much more intense testing on these kids” to determine what is causing it, he said.

Overall, this study says nearly 30percent of teenagers had hearing loss problems when compared to the people in late ’80 and ’90.

Parents can play a major role in preventing this hear loss problem to children by bringing awareness about IPod and listening songs.