What are the damages resulting from noise pollution?

The most direct harmful effect of excessive noise is physical damage to the ear and the temporary or permanent hearing loss often called as 'temporary threshold shift' (TTS). A person suffering from the condition is unable to detect weak sounds. However, hearing ability is usually recovered within a month of exposure. Permanent loss usually called 'noise-induced permanent threshold shift' (NIPT's) represents a loss of hearing ability from which there is no recovery. The sound of 100 dB leads to permanent loss of hearing.

Hypertension, an increase in sweating, dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, giddiness and fatigue are the other disorders caused by noise pollution. Furthermore, undesirable changes in respiration, circulation of blood in the skin, dilation of the pupil of eyes, constriction of blood vessels, changes in muscle tension, fright and increase in heartbeat and alterations in gastrointestinal motility and glandular reactions are the other physiological disorders caused by noise pollution in human beings. Noise pollution may even cause damage to the brain and liver.

Noise pollution also increases the risk of peptic ulcers in human beings. Continuous exposure to noise may lead to abortion in pregnant women. Noise also causes an increase in cholesterol level that blocks the coronary arteries, thus making the person prone to heart attack and stroke. At higher impulsive noise pollution the pulse rate and blood pressure changes, stored glucose from the liver are released into the bloodstream and there is an increased production of hormone adrenaline. The brain begins to exhibit distorted electroencephalographic brain wave records.

Reference:

Singh, A. (2012). Noise pollution: Dangerous to human health. Udyog Yug 33(3): 18-20.

Arvind Singh

Please also go through the following RG links.

Conference Paper " Noise Pollution & Human Health: A Review "

Article Health effects caused by noise: Evidence in the literature f...

Article Impact of Noise Pollution on Human Cardiovascular System

Mouloud Khelf

Dear Marim Auraiby ,

Dr. Arvind Singh has cited all impacts of noise in human health. I enrich his list with references on research work that I have done in this area. More exactly, on the impact of noise on the comfort of passengers inside trams in Algeria. You can read these papers and send requests to get them.

Article The effect of noise on the comfort of passengers inside the ...

Conference Paper The noise effect on the performance of tramway workers: Case...

Article Tram Squealing Noise and Its Impact on Human Health

Article Noise annoyance is related to the presence of urban public transport

Article Transportation Noise and Blood Pressure in a Population-Base...

Good Luck,

Mouloud

Harikrishnan U.

Its interesting

Walter Montano

Scientifically speaking, acousticians we cannot reduce the problems only to human effects.

People, we don't have to forget the environment or the wildlife, both are damaged due to noise, even at low sound levels.

The reduction of the hedonic economical value of properties, which are close to noisy places is a big problem also.

And we cannot reduce "the noise problem" to audible sounds, infrasound and low-frequency noise are more pollutant than audible ones, because their waves propagates through kilometres, so it is possible to affect dwellings or environments far away from sources

Isam Alkhalifawi

Noise pollution impacts millions of people on a daily basis. The most common health problem it causes is Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL). Exposure to loud noise can also cause high blood pressure, heart disease, sleep disturbances, and stress. ... Noise pollution also impacts the health and well-being of wildlife

Prof Dr Suhad Qasim saeed Almousawi

Noise pollution leads to many harmful effects on human health, the most important of which is hearing impairment, as it is considered one of the immediate and acute effects of noise pollution over a period of time, as exposure to long periods of noise leads to damage to the human eardrum, which leads to damage that may lead to It leads to permanent hearing impairment or loss. Noise pollution causes sleep disturbances for people exposed to it, which in turn affects their health and general mood, as it causes fatigue

Jack Freytag

Sleep interference is key damage from noise pollution. This is most prevalent in residences near airports. Hearing damage significantly affects productivity for many tasks during the workday.

Unfortunately, the total damage is difficult to assess because sleep interference varies considerably among individuals, as do the effects of sleep disruption on various work tasks. An American National Standard was developed for sleep interference based on statistical studies; the duration between noise events as well as noise levels affect the degree of sleep disturbance (sleep stage change and awakenings). Unfortunately, while most standards are revised periodically, the sleep interference Standard was deleted last year (to my knowledge, the only ANSI standard fully deleted).

The financial damage from sleep interference is huge when considering the number of individuals affected daily, and the degree of lost productivity by each.

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