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Catherine Delahaye/Getty Images(NEW YORK) The American Academy of Pediatrics is warning parents and caregivers that excessive exposure to loud noises can be detrimental to children, and sound machines can cause more harm to children than previously thought.
In a statement released Saturday, the AAP said: "What families may not realize is that children are exposed to potentially harmful noise from infancy and that the effects are cumulative over a lifetime."
ABC News medical correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton told "Good Morning America" that millions of children are at risk of some form of hearing loss.
"One of the reasons why is because children have smaller ear canals. That exposes them to intensification of that higher frequency sound and [makes] them at risk for damage," Sutton explained.
According to one study published in BMJ Global Health in 2022, more than 1 billion young people are at risk of hearing loss around the world due to unsafe high list
Catherine Delahaye/Getty Images(NEW YORK) The American Academy of Pediatrics is warning parents and caregivers that excessive exposure to loud noises can be detrimental to children, and sound machines can cause more harm to children than previously thought.
In a statement released Saturday, the AAP said: "What families may not realize is that children are exposed to potentially harmful noise from infancy and that the effects are cumulative over a lifetime."
ABC News medical correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton told "Good Morning America" that millions of children are at risk of some form of hearing loss.
"One of the reasons why is because children have smaller ear canals. That exposes them to intensification of that higher frequency sound and [makes] them at risk for damage," Sutton explained.
According to one study published in BMJ Global Health in 2022, more than 1 billion young people are at risk of hearing loss around the world due to unsafe high list