Hearing Aids 1000 » Hearing aids summer http://www.hearingaids1000.com Just another WordPress site Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:52:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Hearing aids in the summer http://www.hearingaids1000.com/blog/hearing-aids-in-the-summer.shtml http://www.hearingaids1000.com/blog/hearing-aids-in-the-summer.shtml#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:55:42 +0000 Jason http://hearingaids1000.com/blog/?p=248 Daylight savings time is almost upon us here in the states and this gets me thinking about summer and the challenges that this can bring for the users of hearing aids. The primary challenge that summer brings for hearing aid users is the fact that hot days often are bundled with water activities and we all know that water and hearing aids are not the best of friends.

I would love to hear from our readers about the ways they deal with hearing aids in summer. Is it safe to remove your hearing aid at the beach, leave it on your towel and take a swim. I would say not. Hearing aids are too expensive for that type of treatment. How about leaving the hearing aids in the car. This exposes them to the next most dangerous element of summer – the heat.

On first glance, the solution seems to be to leave the hearing aid at home when you are going out for a hot day at the beach. This, however, is no solution at all.

Please share with us the tricks and tools you have developed for using hearing aids in the summer.

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The first and perhaps most obvious challenge with hearing aids and the summer is simply that heat is just not a friend to any form of electronics. This computer I am typing on hates the sun and heat. So do hearing aids.

The next enemy of hearing aids that the summer brings is water. I am sitting by a beach writing this and anyone near the water is getting wet and in turn so would any hearing aids if the people had them in. So what do you do? You remove the hearing aid when you swim. Ok, no problem but this presents problem number three – the loss of hearing aids. Due to the summer making everyone want to get in the water it is the leading season for lost hearing aids.

I love the sun but it doesn’t love hearing aids. What other challenges come along with hearing aids and summer?

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