How to Clean & Fix Hearing Aids

Hearing aids are a small electronic device that amplifies sounds. Hearing aids help those with hearing loss live a normal life. Daily use of your hearing aid can cause it to become dirty and dingy. A build-up of wax from your ear can become trapped inside the hearing aid and cause it not to function properly. Many problems that hearing aid owners experience can be corrected by simply cleaning the hearing aid. Routine maintenance and cleaning can keep your hearing aid working correctly and prolong the life of the device.

Things You'll Need

• Hearing aid cleaning kit
• Non-alcohol based disinfectant towelette
• New battery

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Instructions

• 1

  Purchase a hearing aid cleaning kit that includes a wax pick and brush. The kits are sometimes including when your initial purchase of a hearing aid. If not, visit your audiologist for a cleaning kit.

• 2

  Remove the hearing aid from your ear.

• 3

  Remove any wax that may have accumulated on the ear mold. Use the wax pick to clean off the earwax.

• 4

  Clean and disinfect the hearing aid and ear mold surface with a non-alcohol based disinfectant towelette.

• 5

  Remove the battery from the hearing aid and dust, both the battery and its compartment with the brush. Replace the battery.

• 6

  Replace your hearing aid battery.