Loud music can cause lung damage

Belgian doctor Marc Noppen and his colleagues from the AZ-ZUB academic hospital said that loud music, both dance and heavy metal, could cause lung and upper respiratory diseases, known as spontaneous pneumothorax,.

Researchers call loud music the "trigger" of pneumothorax, drawing attention to the fact that three patients got the disease at a concert or in a nightclub, and the fourth - in their own car, where the victim listened to columns with a capacity of 1,000 watts.

Scientists suspect that often repeated sounds at low frequencies cause the lungs to vibrate, as a result of which the air does not enter the pleural cavity untimely.

Australian experts consider the findings of their Belgian colleagues interesting, but not final.

In their opinion, pneumothorax can be caused by a combination of factors, and loud music is just one of them.

Medicus. En.

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