Parents urged to protect children's ears in loud environments.
The New York Times (3/2, D6, Cohen) reports, "Hearing loss, which accumulates slowly over a lifetime, is neither painful nor disfiguring, so it goes unnoticed." But "audiologists around the nation" say that children who are exposed to loud noises, like those generated in football stadiums, should don earmuffs or other comparable "safeguards." Data from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reveals that "more than 15 minutes of exposure to 100 decibels is unsafe," and "noise that is potentially dangerous to an adult is even more dangerous to a child, said Levi A. Reiter, head of the audiology program at Hofstra University."
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