PSA: You Should Not Wear Your Earphones For More Than 90 Minutes At A Time

Exposure to noises that are too loud for too long can damage your hearing.

The Ministry of Health have suggested these steps to healthier listening habits:

- Generally use earphones less ,

- Set your device volume to not more than half ,

- Do not use earphones for more than 90 minutes at a time,

- Do not use earbuds - use noise-cancelling headphones so that they cancel out external noise and you need not turn the volume up so high, and

- Rest your ears - they will need 16 hours to recover after a whole night of noise.

Your ears need time to recover after a whole night of noise.