Hearing aid care is simple. Proper hearing aid maintenance may extend their lifespan and reduce repairs.
Battery Door
Open the battery doors while not wearing hearing aids. Hearing aid batteries are opened daily. Dirt and grime may accumulate around battery doors due to skin oils.
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Volume
Hearing aid volume controls are utilized more than battery doors. Skin oils attract filth and grime. Dirt and filth get on top of and behind the volume control, causing it to malfunction. Your hearing aid specialist’s brush can stop this again. Brush beneath the volume wheel as much as possible. Clean the volume wheel clockwise and counterclockwise.
Switches Older Waterloo Hearing Aids may contain noise reduction switches and telephone switches (which were pretty useless; thus, only old hearing aid have them)—the same thing with skin oil and filth on the switch. Brush the hearing aids again with the switch in both places.
If one of your hearing aids is buzzing and you can’t hear amplification, verify sure the telephone switch isn’t on.
Moisture
Moisture affects all electronics.
Imagine keeping your TV in saltwater and ear wax and expecting it to work brilliantly without expert maintenance. Your hearing aids spend 16 hours a day there. Overnight hearing aid storage in a moisture protection box reduces moisture issues.
Moisture may cause your hearing aids’ periodic shut offs and restarts.
Avoid drying Waterloo Hearing Aids in the microwave. It’s been attempted—microwaves damage hearing aid electronics.
Microphone
Miniature microphones on hearing aid faceplates.
Faces out while in ears. Hearing aid microphones are small holes. One or two holes. A mic inlet screen may collect airborne dirt. Dirt might jam the screens’ small sound holes.
Avoid hairspray with hearing aids. Please do not press the brush into the microphone holes while cleaning them. You may even let the hairspray dry out.
Sound Tube
Hearing aids provide sound to your ears using sound tubes. Ear wax and dry skin clog sound tubes more than any other hearing instrument portion. The cerumen gland, which creates ear wax, naturally points outward so it may flow out and not cause an impact. Enter sound. Remove earwax. The issue?
Some hearing aids feature wax guards. Some are patient-changeable. Change the wax guard if you have a healthy battery but no loudness. If you don’t have a wax guard, carefully clean the hearing aid’s sound port using the wire end of your brush or the wired cleaning tool that came with it. This end enters your ear.
Hearing aids with comfort tips, which eliminate feedback and whistling, may be removed and replaced. Run a small wire or needle through the horizontal red (right) or blue (left) hole where the hearing aids emit a sound when they’re off. It should remove wax from the comfort tip missed.
Shell
Hearing aid shells are constructed of hypo-allergenic plastic. Stop using hearing aids and see a hearing instrument expert if your ears get red and dry or damp where the hearing aid touches.
Conclusion
It seems like a lot of effort, but it covers many possibilities. Keep your hearing aids clean and dry.
