{"id":410,"date":"2014-06-20T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valleyaudiology.com\/va2015\/?p=396"},"modified":"2014-06-20T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T03:51:09","slug":"moisture-causes-many-hearing-aid-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/moisture-causes-many-hearing-aid-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Moisture Causes Many Hearing Aid Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>If you have ever experienced fuzzy or distorted sound, weakness, static, intermittency, short battery life, or even all-out failure of your hearing aids, and you&#8217;ve con- firmed that the batteries are good, there&#8217;s a good chance that the culprit is either moisture<\/p>\n<p>or earwax. In fact, manufacturers report that as many as one-half of the aids they receive for repair are malfunctioning due to moisture or earwax.<\/p>\n<p>Some people tend to perspire more than others. Living in a humid environment can also take a toll on the internal hearing aid components. Corrosion can take years off the life of your hearing aid.<\/p>\n<p>There are several moisture control products available that you can save you time, expense, and aggravation due to preventable moisture-related hearing aid problems.<\/p>\n<p>With hearing aid dehumidifiers such as the Zephyr Dry and Store, or Super Dri-Jars, best results are achieved with in-home use every<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>night. The Zephyr Dry and Store is an electronic device that uses a replaceable moisture absorbing brick. The Dri-Jars are a little less high tech and use desiccant beads that absorb moisture overnight. The beads can be recharged several times in either a conventional oven or microwave oven. (But be sure to remove the hearing aids first!)<\/p>\n<p>The final solution for people who have a really hard time keeping their devices dry are products such as Ear Gear. These are small sleeves that fit over the top of hearing aids and act as mois- ture barriers while be acoustically transparent so the wearer can\u00a0still hear well.<\/p>\n<p>We have the Dri jars and electronic dry and store devices for sale in our office. The Ear Gear can be ordered online directly from the company at www.gearforears.com.<\/p>\n<p>Call us if you need more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever experienced fuzzy or distorted sound, weakness, static, intermittency, short battery life, or even all-out failure of your hearing aids, and you&#8217;ve con- firmed that the batteries are good, there&#8217;s a good chance that the culprit is either moisture or earwax. In fact, manufacturers report that as many as one-half of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","locid":"","rating":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}