If you had the choice between hearing more and feeling more pain or hearing less and feeling less pain, which would you choose? Geezer says it depends on who you'd have to listen to. In any case, it's a choice the many people will have to make if the conclusions of research conducted at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston stand the test of time. The research, written up in the American Journal of Medicine, looked at 26,917 men who ranged from 40 to 75. Every two years,
the men filled out questionnaires about their use of various drugs, other lifestyle factors, and hearing loss.The Los Angeles Times reports that use of acetaminophen (often sold as Tylenol) more than twice a week doubles the
risk of hearing loss, and use of ibuprofen and related non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increases the risk by nearly
two-thirds.Regular aspirin increases the risk by about a third.
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Is there any OTC pain medication that doesn’t increase your risk of hearing loss or is it that as these men aged and hearing loss naturally occurred and was then reported it skewed the data?
The West is a very noisy place and said pollution damages hearing.