Did you ever experience adrenaline surges on the road

Monika Jain
2 min readSep 29, 2020

The other day I was heading to my home at around 4 pm on my two-wheeler. The road was as usual busy with numerous vehicles on the road. Since we are still in the pandemic period facing a lot of challenges in our daily lives, I could notice another issue which is sure you must have faced in your daily lives too but had ignored it for a while.

So during this Covid-19 times, I could see a lot of ambulances rushing here and there carrying patients to hospitals. I came across an ambulance which was moving at a higher speed making loud siren at the back of my vehicle. I was perplexed without knowing what to do and how to move and where to move. The noise made me feel more nervous, fearful and at the same time I was expected to move quickly as possible but when you are in a stressful condition you end up doing something which you are not even aware of.

Imagine your ice cream is splashing from all sides and you don’t understand which side to lick first. Finally, you end up making your hands dirty. Awww! The feeling of stickiness in hands.
Precisely you do the same thing when you are anxious. This is what I did. I hit the same vehicle from which I was trying to move far. “Chucklesome” I was safe no worries. But I did see many of them going through the same incident. Noticing the movement of these vehicles a question came into my mind as the loud sirens made by them Is it not affecting us in any way?

We all know the fact that when we hear a loud noise suddenly when we least expect, the muscles in our jaw, neck, leg, and thighs tighten and releases a hormone called adrenaline. Adrenaline is generally produced in the medulla in the adrenal glands during a stressful condition which impulses the organ to create a specific response.

If you experience persistent surges of adrenaline it increases blood pressure, elevates the risk of heart attack, and many more. Which is of course I believe is a bad signal to our health.
Further looking on the matter I found out that In Europe the sirens were operating at almost 123 decibels but at a lower frequency making it pleasing to the ears and less painful. Even countries like Uk are planning to adopt European siren soon.

Can you give your thoughts on these loud sirens of emergency vehicles and do you think there must be some change be bought in our country too?

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