The 4 Most Frequent Mistakes Made by New Hearing Aid Owners

If you are due to be wearing a hearing aid for the first time, there might be a lot of questions that you need answering before you do, and especially if you can hope to make the best use of the item that you can. Used properly and looked after well, a hearing aid will last a long time, and will help you with your hearing health for all that time in a hugely helpful way. But there are some errors and mistakes that people tend to make when they are faced with the prospect of wearing a hearing aid for the first time.

In this post, we are going to take a look at four specific mistakes that are generally made by new hearing aid owners. If you can avoid all of the following, you are going to be in a good position with regard to your hearing aids, and you should find that you are able to keep them in a good condition for a considerable amount of time.

Getting It Wet

In general, you cannot get a hearing aid wet. If you do, it is likely that the product will stop working or will at least not work to the fullest possible capability, which therefore means that you might still be experiencing some degree of hearing loss. It might not be immediately obvious that you can’t get a hearing aid wet, but this is something that you really do need to be aware of if you hope for your hearing aid to be well looked after for good.

One of the most important things you can do to ensure your hearing aid avoids getting wet is storing it in its appropriate case at night when you take it out, or when you are going for a shower or bath or going swimming. As long as you do that, it is much less likely that it is going to get wet at all.

Letting It Get Dirty

As well as not allowing it to get wet, you also need to make sure that you are not letting your hearing aid get too dirty. Over time, naturally, there will be a lot of dust and grime that do collect, and you are going to find that this can intrude upon the proper and complete operation of the device. It is therefore vital that you are not allowing it to become dirty, as much as possible. 

Essentially all this means is that you need to clean it with a dry wipe once a day and ensure in particular it is free of any excess wax. That is going to help keep it in a good condition for much longer.

Not Familiarizing Yourself with the Device

As with many other devices of this nature, it can take a while to get used to your hearing aid. This can mean that you are not getting the most out of it for a while. In order to avoid that situation, you simply need to make sure that you are putting aside some time to familiarize yourself with your hearing aid. As long as you can do that, you should find that you are able to get a lot more out of it – for instance, by learning about all of the features and functions that the device has. The more familiar you are with it, the better.

Forgetting to Wear It

Finally, it might sound funny, but it can actually be very easy to forget to wear a hearing aid too. This can happen as a result of many things, but whatever the underlying cause it’s important to make sure that you are not doing this too often. Of course, the main reason to make sure of this is that you might not be able to hear properly if you are not wearing your hearing aid. But you might also experience other issues related to that, such as social interaction trouble or headaches too.

It is important that, once you have a hearing aid, you remember to wear it in any setting when you might need to. Otherwise, you are going to have more trouble in being able to make good use of it, and your quality of life might well decline rapidly.

If you would like to find out more about hearing aids, or you think you might need to have one fitted, your best course of action is to get in touch with Professional Hearing Aid Service at 202-785-8704.