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Health & hearing noise complaints: building noise troubleshooting: Information is provided about auditory (hearing), visual, historic, medical, or other clues of building condition that explain various sounds heard in buildings.

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Health, Neurological, and Psychologically-Related Noise Complaints in buildings

Sleep Mate white noise generator (C) Daniel Friedman

Details about this topic are found
at HEALTH RELATED NOISE EFFECTS.

Here we provide a summary of key points you should consider.

Health related noise and apparent noise sources can involve common aging or hearing disorders, dementia, or other serious medical conditions.

Other medical conditions:

If you or someone you are assisting is disturbed by noises whose presence is not verified by independent third parties, we recommend that you or the noise-disturbed person check with their physician. In addition to careful medical examination, use of hearing aids or a white noise machine may assist in these cases.

See SOUND CONTROL in BUILDINGS

Shown above is the Sleep Mate™ sound generator produced by Marpac.


Hearing Disabilities and Building Noises

Hearing Disabilities and the ability to identify and track the source of noises in buildings can be difficult for the hearing impaired.

Even when a noise is present at a discernable level, a person with hearing impairment may have difficulty accurately pointing to the direction from which a noise is emanating. If you are hearing impaired or working with someone who is, recruit additional help from others and don't forget to consider that the apparent direction or source of a noise could be quite mistaken.

Also don't forget to check hearing aids themselves for noise sources; a poorly-fitting or low battery hearing aid may squawk, shriek, or emit periodic chimes, beeps, or with the newest units even voices announcing "low battery".


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