Can hearing impairment be prevented?

Can hearing impairment be prevented?

Hearing impairment can be prevented. Most commonly, antibiotics to treat ear infections can help prevent permanent hearing loss. And immunizations for measles, the mumps and rubella can help prevent hearing loss as well. With patients who use headphones for music become adjusted to the volume of that sound. So you continue to turn the sound up and up, louder and louder, so you don't really appreciate how loud you're really listening to the music. The interesting thing on most portable listening devices is if you turn them over, they have a loudness control that helps protect you from turning the volume up past a comfortable level, so that you protect your ears in that way.