Nature’s white noise is not harmful and has no side effects. Man-made white noise must not be used daily and can create a certain dependency and have a great impact on hearing and physical and mental health.

We all know that white noise is a treatment in some countries, and it has positive effects on insomnia, inattention and other symptoms, but in fact, white noise is also harmful to some extent. Here’s a small series to give you a popular science.

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Affect hearing

Most of the white noise is obtained through headphones, our ears will damage hearing in a noisy environment for a long time, and data show that our ears continue to listen to white noise for 8 hours, which will cause hearing damage. For babies who are in the physical development period, if white noise is often used to stop crying or coax them to sleep, it is easy to cause irreparable damage to the child’s hearing, and even seriously affect the child’s brain development.

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Generate dependence

White noise is the masking of ambient noise by one or more sounds. For adults, it has the interference effect of eliminating noise. If white noise is often used to promote sleep, it will produce great dependence.

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Affect physical and mental health

The principle of white noise is actually to make people have hearing fatigue. Strictly speaking, white noise has no function of inducing sleep. If the baby is not sleepy, or is in a stage of severe cr