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Permanent Sounds?
level of hearing will experience and seems to go away when you reach old age. There is no cure or treatment, it is just something you have to live with. And even scientists don't know the origin.
​H​igh pitched sounds that are commonly heard are
believed to be caused by ultrasonic waves that are in the air. These ultrasonic waves are caused by machines. Sometimes the sounds were intentionally released and sometimes they were released by accident though the sounds are usually too high for people to be able to hear. Leighton said in an interview with Live Science that sometimes the ultrawaves being released are the “sounds that are right on the edge of hearing for infants,
young people, some adult women and other groups with particularly acute hearing.”
The text also states that the sounds do have an effect on some people “They're loud enough to be annoying and cause headaches in people sensitive to them, though it
Wellness 101 - Spring 2020
By​ Tracy
o you ever hear high pitched sounds that just annoy you? Or random sounds that just seem to not go away? Well, you are most likely suffering from tinnitus. Tinnitus is something almost everyone who has a normal