How to Properly Clean and Store Your Hearing Aids

When you need hearing aids, there are quite a few things that you might need to bear in mind along the way. One of the main things here is to ensure that you know how to properly care for your hearing aids, which can be tricky but is properly easier than you might assume as well. Two of the main elements to this are knowing how to properly clean and store your hearing aids, so that they can last longer and be much better looked after.

In this article, we are going to show you specifically what you need to do in order to properly clean and store your hearing aids. As long as you keep on top of the following, you should find that your hearing aids will last longer, be in better condition generally, and be more likely to work well for you, so let’s take a look.

Get to Know Your Hearing Aid Cleaning Kit

Hearing aids will always come with a hearing aid cleaning kit, which you certainly need to make use of and which it is important to get to know as well as you can. This should not take you too long, but it is something that you will need to spend some effort and time on in order to really get clear on it. Essentially, your hearing aid kit will normally come with a few essential supplies:

• A brush: This should be a soft brush, used for removing wax and other dirt from the hearing aid mold, filters and domes. These days, you will often have a brush that also has a magnetic battery removal tool, so that you can clean under the battery more easily and effectively too. As well as the brush, you’ll have a dry cloth for removing wax too.
• Wax pick: This might alternatively be a wire loop, and it is designed specifically to help you remove wax from tricky places on the hearing aid, such as nooks and crannies which can have a lot of hard places to clean.
• Multi-tool: Very often, a hearing aid cleaning kit will also have a multi-tool, which is essentially a kind of all-in-one cleaning tool with many of the other elements above all in one. This should be useful in trying to thoroughly clean your device, and it definitely helps when you do indeed have this.

Hearing Aid Cleaning Basics

So now that you have made sure you have the appropriate tools in place, you need to know how you are going to be able to clean your hearing aid. The basic process for doing this is actually very simple and straightforward, though some certain elements of it can certainly take a little practice. However, as long as you follow this rough process, you should find that you can easily and effectively clean your hearing aids.

First, wash your hands and then thoroughly dry them, to ensure that you are ready to get to work on cleaning your hearing aids. Then you can start cleaning by wiping your hearing aid with a cloth, and start to use that brush tool to remove the worst of the wax. You will probably find that most of it simply falls off when you do this. Remember not to use any water throughout this entire process, as that can damage the device.

Next up, you will want to make sure that you give the whole device a good clean with a wipe. Once you have done that, it is now clean and ready to either be worn again, or if it is before bedtime, then perhaps to be stored.

Storing Your Hearing Aids

That in itself actually needs to be discussed and considered too. Storing your hearing aid properly is important, because you need to make sure that you are avoiding it getting damp or wet, or damaged. So, each night when you take it out, be sure to put it in its proper case, rather than another case you might have laying around. Its own case is designed perfectly for the job, after all.

Make sure that you take the battery out, too, because that will help to keep it lasting a lot longer, and you will find that you are going to have your hearing aid last longer as well. And there you have it. To find out more about hearing aids, or to book in for a hearing test, get in touch with an audiologist at The Hearing and Tinnitus Center at (720) 420-7780 today.