Four Ways to Prevent Moisture in your Hearing Aids
To prevent moisture from invading your hearing aid or receiver, pay attention to these four actions:
1) Ensure your ears are totally free of moisture before putting your hearing aids in place.
2) Make sure you open the battery door at night so any moisture build-up can dry out.
3) Protect your hearing aids from humidity by using sweat socks that absorb the moisture from the outside.
4) Use a dry kit to absorb moisture and protect the hearing aid.
Why is keeping moisture out of your hearing aids important?
Are your hearing aids not performing as well as you’d like?
For many, the culprit is moisture that can get in unexpectedly and might even damage your hearing aids. Certainly today’s hearing aids are designed to prevent moisture from entering the outer case and body, but they are not completely waterproof. There are certain actions you can take in order to help prevent moisture from diminishing your listening experience.
Getting moisture in your hearing aid can happen when you want it to be its most efficient: at an important meeting, a family gathering, a church service or a concert. To prevent that from happening to you, what should you watch out for?
After a shower, bath, or swim, you can invite moisture in by immediately putting on(or putting in) your hearing aids without checking if your ears are completely dry. In addition to letting in moisture from any of these activities, high summer temperatures and intense exercise can cause you to perspire more. When humidity levels rise, more sweat results. We highly recommend that after any activity involving water, that you thoroughly dry your ears before inserting your hearing aids.
Beware of Condensation
Condensation can be a factor, too. One hearing aid wearer has to repeatedly step into a cooler for work where produce, and dairy products are stored. When he complained about his hearing aid, we finally figured out the problem: Walking in and out of that work environment caused condensation to creep into both of his hearing aids. Putting “sweat socks” on the hearing aids solved his problem quickly and easily.
Sweat socks are tiny coverings (See Batteries & Supplies Page) that prevent perspiration from entering the hearing aids. For only a few dollars, sweat socks can help you avoid reducing the performance of hearing aids and possibly damaging them.
An alternative for him would be to place his hearing aids in a dry kit. This is a small beaded pouch in a container that stores the hearing aids overnight and wicks away any moisture. That way, they can be completely dry out before he goes into a humid space the next working day.
Lifestyle Hearing Solutions can help you with even more suggestions.
Call us at 520-323-0099 or contact us through our website at www.LifestyleHearingSolutions.com