How to Protect Your Baby's Hearing

How to Protect Your Baby's Hearing


Little children are often a fan of noisy events and activities from a young age, but it’s always important to be mindful of the volume. Loud noises can be damaging to the inner ear and babies can be particularly sensitive. They’ll need suitable protection that’s designed for smaller ears if they’re in noisy environments. Babies and toddlers also require screenings to monitor their hearing health. As a parent, there are also a few things you can do to protect your baby’s hearing.

Invest in suitable hearing protection

If you’re going to take your baby or toddler to an event to connect and have fun, you’ll need to bear in mind the noise levels. Sporting and music events often are dangerously loud, and you may even need to consider the volume at family festivals with things like fireworks. It’s important to know what to buy for your baby and choose hearing protection that’s specially designed for them. You can get earmuffs that have different sizes according to age.

Use an app to monitor volume levels

An easy way to test the volume while you’re out with your baby is to download one of the best apps for monitoring noise levels. These are accurate and easy to use and can be applied to outdoor environments or volume levels on electronic devices. This way you can determine the level of noise is safe for your baby’s hearing.

Take them for hearing screenings


It’s important not to miss hearing screenings for babies as they help to detect any issues from an early age. Your baby will have hearing tests from within a few weeks of being born to up to for of five years old. Hearing tests are an accurate way to determine any inner ear problems whether they’re related to a simple build-up of wax due to an ear infection or an underlying health condition. These tests will help to ensure healthy hearing development and give you peace of mind.

Speak to an audiologist

As well as performing hearing screenings, an audiologist can also give useful tips and advice on how to protect your child’s hearing. If your baby has shown signs of hearing loss or other issues they will be able to recommend the best hearing aid style and other suitable solutions. An audiologist can also help your child adjust to wearing a hearing aid and this will greatly improve their quality of life.

Educate others on minimizing volume

Remind others that interact with your baby, such as family and friends, to minimize the volume as well. If you attend family parties ensure the music or conversation noise isn’t too loud. As a general rule of thumb, if you are unable to hear someone three feet away then the background noise is too high. If you are planning on attending big events, always have your child’s hearing protection with you just in case. You can then rest assured their hearing will be protected even if there’s a lot of noise going on.

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