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Although tinnitus and hearing damage is most usually associated with work involving heavy machinery or loud music, it has been found that teachers are also very much at risk.
When playing, children can often scream and shout at the top of their lungs, a fact to which many parents can testify. They are able to produce loud volumes of noise and this is not helped by the acoustics of classrooms, which typically do not have any sound-absorbent walls or flooring, leading to amplification.
Research into tinnitus in teachers showed that male teachers have an 84% higher rate of incidence than men in other professions, whilst female nursery school teachers have a 1.13 higher rate than women in other lines of work.
Nick Doughty of Action for Tinnitus Research (ATR) said, "Tinnitus used to be considered the domain of the elderly, the manual worker and the music industry, and the more evidence that is collected, the more we are realising that this simply isn't true.
"Musicians, machinists and industrial workers aren't the only ones suffering from tinnitus. It is estimated that around five million people in the UK suffer from tinnitus, however the figure could be even higher if professions like teaching are starting to suffer the symptom.
"This worrying research stresses why we desperately need more funds to research tinnitus and find a cure or treatment."
