EFFECTS OF NOISE POLLUTION TO THE BODY
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ABSTRACT
Noise is a form of an unwanted sound.It can be caused by various aspects like cars hooting, night clubs, crusades, loud music in the neighbourhood, airports, industries, factories and many others.
This sound can be very distracting for example students cant concentrate in class when cars are hooting or when the environment surrounding them is noisy .We also have the case scenario of a hospitals it is very unfair to patients to be in a place surrounded by factories or industries they don’t even heal well.
Let’s look at a case study of residential areas we get that when the place is noisy people lack sleep, others get severe headaches, mental health issues and others can have hearing problems, it’s also not good for the elderly because they need peace at this time because most of them have pressure issues.
Effects of noise pollution to the rest of the body
Noise is a form of unwanted sound. Studies show that prolonged exposure to noise may cause detrimental health problems. Although people try as much as possible to avoid noise pollution, it is everywhere. For example, night clubs churches, crusades, vehicles, airports ,industries, factories, constructions, people drilling wells, parties etc. This disturbs our peace as well as causing distraction. This study aims to study the effects of health to the rest of the body.
Too much noise near hospitals can be so disturbing to patients or the elderly in a retirement home. According to a study done by (U.S Environmental Protection Agency) noise that exceed 80 decibels can cause serious health issues. It can cause hearing problems later causing deafness. In addition, serious headaches can be caused by noise later resulting to mental health issues. Noise can also cause heart diseases especially to vulnerable groups like the old and people with chronic diseases .According to the (university of Gothenburg) noise increases pulse rate.
Too much noise makes people get panic attacks others can be very jumpy it can cause irritability and uneasiness. Lack of sleep is also brought about by noise despite that sleep is an important aspect to our bodies so we get that if a person doesn’t get good sleep he or she is likely to be unproductive at the work place. Interference of speech it is obvious that people cannot converse in a noisy environment.
In conclusion, People are advised to reduce noise where necessary for example reduce the volume of music when using earphones. Avoid staying in noisy places like near machines for more than one hour one can also get noise absorbing curtains in residential houses or build noise absorbing walls so that residents cant get disturbing.
References
Singh, N.,&Davar,s.c.(2004)
Noise pollution-sources ,effects and control. Journal of Human Ecology,16(30),181-187.