Your new hearing aids work great, but they begin to look worn after a few weeks. How can you clean your hearing aids without damaging their components? This guide will help you to clean your hearing aids without damaging them.
Maintenance of hearing aids
Your hearing aid should be treated with care. To maintain the hearing aid’s sound quality and longevity, it is important to regularly clean and maintain it. It is important to take care of your hearing aid. A few tips for handling your hearing aids:
- To reduce the chance of your hearing aid falling, lean on the table while inserting or removing it.
- Avoid high temperatures and humidity with your hearing aids
- Before you shower, swim, have radiation treatment, or use a hair dryer, take your hearing aids off.
Cleaning your hearing aids
No matter what type of hearing aid you have, you should not use water or any other fluids to clean it. Use a soft, dry cloth to clean the surface of your hearing aid. The special brush and tool included with the aid can be used to clean around the microphone opening and vent.
Ear wax can cause hearing aids to malfunction. Ear wax can cause hearing aids malfunction. Remove any ear wax that has accumulated around your sound outlet with the small brush or cloth provided with your hearing aid. It will be much easier to get rid of the wax if it is allowed to dry overnight.
Earwax can naturally get into hearing aids worn in the ear canal. Therefore, they need to be cleaned more often. Every time you take your hearing aid out of your ear, it is a good idea for your hearing aid to be inspected for dirt and wax. Your daily routine should include cleaning your hearing aid, just as brushing your teeth.
Important: Do NOT insert anything in the microphone.
CIC Hearing Aids Cleaning
Some CIC hearing instruments include a short vent tube with an opening close to the sound outlet. These are the steps to clean it.
- Take out your hearing aid’s battery
- A wax-removing tool to remove a Widex CIC hearing device has both a long end and a shorter end. The tip of the shorter end has a small ball that is used to clear the vent.
- The long end of the wax-removing instrument should be inserted into the opening near the tip.
- The hearing aid should be turned so that the battery compartment is facing downwards.
- To remove wax accumulated around the microphone on the battery drawer, use the short end of the wax-removing instrument.
- From the inside, guide the tip of the wax-removing instrument through the microphone opening.
Clean your hearing aid wax protector
A wax guard is a type of filter that is installed in the sound outlet. This filter prevents dirt and wax from getting into the sound channel. It is important to clean any dirt or wax that may have accumulated around your hearing aid’s wax guard. This can be done with a soft cloth or small brush. There are many factors that can affect the quantity of earwax produced by people. Therefore, your frequency at which you need to change your wax guard will differ.
WARNING: Sometimes, even with the best cleaning, dirt and wax can get stuck in your hearing aid and cause it to malfunction. This can cause your hearing aid to sound weaker or more distorted. This can cause your hearing aids to sound weak or distorted.
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