Patient's question:
I heard that noise affects babies. What kind of sound is considered noise? What are the effects of noise on babies? My wife is only about two months pregnant.Doctor's answer:
Hello, as more and more people live closer together and people increasingly use machinery to create leisure, they find that their leisure time, even their working hours, have been damaged by by-products of machinery—noise.The technical difficulties in controlling noise often stem from both subjective and objective aspects of the problem. You can define a vehicle as speeding based on the reading of a speedometer's pointer, but can you define noise standards using this method? You will find that using any existing "noise meter," vehicles judged to emit the same level of noise can show significant deviations on the meter.
Although the ideal method for solving noise pollution is to eliminate it at its source, this is often impossible in many cases. Another measure is to absorb the noise before it reaches the ears. Most noise problems can be best addressed by effectively reducing the sound pressure level at the receiving location. Soft music in a restaurant can mask the clinking of ceramic ware and the conversation at the next table. The noise of a fan in a phone booth can be used to cover the interference from the adjacent booth. Typically, the solution to noise problems involves reducing the sound pressure level either at the source or during its propagation.