Dr Pete's Health Secrets

                   Headphones have become indispensable today, from attending Zoom virtual meetings, to language translation when you travel abroad, listening to lectures online to your favourite music as you commute to work or playing your favourite game, it has become part of everyday life. But if you are always wearing your in-ear earphones, you may be on your way to deafness ! This is reffered to as Noise Hearing Loss (NHL). Teens these days are glued to their tunes by cranking up the volume as they listen to their favorite music.  Unfortunately, the World Health Organization (WHO) believes that this habit could affect their inability to hear in the future.  The popularity of mobile devices is so difficult to ignore, which is why many young adults are so attached to them.  Listening to songs using their earphones could have a bad impact on their hearing ability. The WHO Warning WHO cautions young people to limit t...