Visiting any hearing aid center or clinic, you’ll find various models of hearing aids. Besides them, you’ll meet other equally interesting electronic devices and various consumables. I’m talking about hearing accessories/ You can use them with your hearing aids. How useful are they? Should they be used together with medical devices? Let’s answer these questions together!
Why use hearing aid accessories?
Hearing aids are complex electronic devices that perform difficult tasks. Their main goal is to restore the ability to hear and understand sounds and speech. Like any electronic device, hearing aids are exposed to various factors that are detrimental to their health. Some factors (earwax and dust) affect the effectiveness of devices. For example, if earwax clogs the speakers or earbuds, the user will begin to hear worse as the sound quality decreases. Other factors, such as water and high temperature, can break hearing aids. Hearing aids are indespancable for people with hearing loss because if they break down, hard of hearing people actually fall out of the normal rhythm of life until they get new ones. Is it worth talking about the time and money spent? It’s much easier to clean your devices every week than to buy them every six months.
To extend the life of your devices, you need to take care of them properly. It’s good to have the hearing aid supplies made for the devices to function. Are the earbuds clogged with earwax? It’s not a problem! It is enough to replace them with new ones. Is the battery dead? Pull it out of the hearing aid and install a new one. Has the dust clogged your devices? Remove it using hearing aid tools.
It’s a shame if an expensive device suddenly stops working in the middle of the day because of a clogged earbud or a dead battery. Therefore, every responsible owner should have things for cleaning hearing aids, a tester for diagnosing batteries, a charger if the device runs on batteries, and other hearing aid accessories!
The latest hearing aids are a real art of engineering. They combine unique technological solutions and fresh design trends. Special additional features give a unique hearing experience. However, make no mistake, because even the most modern and powerful hearing aid is not omnipotent! You can get into an environment where it cannot cope with its responsibilities 100%. For example, you are listening to a lecturer’s speech in a large audience. It’s not always possible to hear the lecturer, even with the most modern hearing aid, because of the audiological situation. In such a situation, the appropriate hearing accessories will help you!
Before going to bed, people take off their hearing aids to charge or dry them. But hard-of-hearing people also want to hear such vital sounds as a phone call, a doorbell, a child’s cry, a fire alarm, or an alarm clock. What should they do in such a situation? Hearing accessories come to the rescue again!
Modern life is difficult to imagine without means of communication and different gadgets. We interact with smartphones, tablets, TVs, and computers every day. Wireless hearing accessories help to use all the equipment as confidently as healthy people do!
Hearing aids are an effective remedy for hearing loss. But to fully unlock their potential and prolong their life, you must use various hearing accessories!
Types of hearing aid accessories
Any hearing aid center has a wide variety of hearing aid accessories. It’ll be difficult for you at first, especially if you do not have rich experience using such devices. In addition, when choosing and buying a hearing aid, an audiologist will offer you to complete the device with various useful additional products. To choose the right accessories and not overpay for them, you need to understand them at least a little. Let’s look at two main groups of hearing accessories that’ll increase the efficiency and comfort of medical devices.
Non-technical hearing accessories
First of all, these are various cleaning tools and hearing aid supplies. Cleaning hearing aids is mandatory if you want to maximize the service life of your devices! Cleaning tools are dry cleaning wipes, brushes, or loops. With their help, you can remove earwax, dust, and other dirt from the case and other elements.
Here are some hearing aid supplies:
- Earplugs
- Filters
- Moisture-resistant coatings
- Earwax protection systems
- Batteries
In short, you should change consumables as needed. It is better to make a small stock of everything you need so that you do not have to urgently go to the hearing aid center with a non-working hearing aid!
Electronic Hearing Accessories
By the name of this group it is clear that all accessories are technical devices. They directly affect the operation of hearing aids. There are quite a lot of them, and the choice depends on the specific model of the hearing aid. Here are some examples of such accessories:
- Remote controls (ePen, miniPocket, and others). With their help, you can discreetly control the main functions of the hearing aid. With one button you can change the volume, select a program, and turn the device on or off
- Audio streamer provides audio signal transmission from any external device. Direct connection is possible via FM input or Bluetooth
- Noise generator. This device is well-suited for people with tinnitus
Today, hearing accessories can solve any difficulty faced by a hard-of-hearing person. They are reliable assistants everywhere: at home, in the office or at a party. With their help, the hearing aid works longer and better, bringing its owner maximum benefit. So don’t forget to use additional accessories to get the best hearing experience and high-quality sound!