Hello everyone! Welcome to my channel, If you're new, my name is Emily. I created Definite Hearing
as a way to increase awareness for the deaf and hard of hearing. Why would I do this? Well, I am
hard of hearing myself. I wear two hearing aids and boy, do I love them. I was diagnosed with my
hearing loss at birth to two hearing parents. They had no idea that they would have two daughters
with hearing loss. That's right, you heard it I have a sister with hearing loss too. Did
you know that 95% of children born with hearing losses are born to hearing parents that have
no history of hearing loss? Yeah, crazy! So if you are a parent with a hard of hearing child,
have no fear, you're not alone. Alright, so for today's video I wanted to spotlight
the five in one hearing aid cleaning kit! I love this thing. I featured it in a couple of my other
videos, particularly Christmas ideas for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, depending on
their age particularly people with hearing devices. So I love this little kit, this is my third one
that I have bought. Why have I bought three? Because I wanted one for myself, I gave one to a friend and
I'm gifting one to my grandpa for Christmas. Here is the next one, and so I wanted to show off this
tool and why this is great, so we'll go ahead and go through this. I hope you stick around to
the end of this video because if you do I'm going to show how I deep clean my ear molds,
and that will be really helpful especially if there's wax in the tubes that you cannot get out.
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subscribe! All right, so here is the hearing aid kit. I'm going to go ahead and open it and walk through
each little tool so I love this little tool because it has five different gadgets. Some
are super helpful for me, and some like maybe not, and I use them in different ways but I'll show you
so this first tool is a little hearing aid cleaning wax brush, so it's got some little
bristles, it's kind of plasticky, it's not like super soft, it feels thick like horse hair but it's
definitely not horsehair, it's plastic. So this is great because you can just brush off any like
hard, crumbly bits of wax off of your ear mold. So I love this little tool, the next one is the
wax wire tool so this is great because it's harder than the brush, and you can scrape off
the wax. I really like this one for the inside of the tubes usually I'll just get some wax build-up
just right on the inside of my ear molds let me show you what I mean, so right here in this tube,
I just like to wipe it like right there so this is super helpful for that it gets the gunk out
and just cleans any front blockages that I may have. Next, is the little tube cleaner so it's
this little uh flexible piece of I want to call it plastic again, and this is great for vents and
tubes so some ear molds have vents right below the tube you can barely see mine right there and this
is great because you can just push it through the vent and clean it like we'll get rid of any
blockages or issues it's important to keep your ear molds clean and clear so that the sound can
pass through your tubes and into your ear. Another thing you should keep in mind about this little
tube and vent cleaner is that sometimes it doesn't go all the way through your hearing aid tubes
for example, let me show you it doesn't go all the way out that's okay you do what you can to
get the wax out to the front of the tube you just kind of rotate it and shove the wax out
and then you use the hearing aid wax loop to grab it out from the front of the tube, like this.
There you have it, so there is a very helpful little tube tip thing so I love this because
before I got this I was using like paper clips needles random things I could find around the
house to just like shove in my hearing aid tubes which like wasn't super great but
I really wanted to get stuff out of my tubes so I like this little tool. Alright. next is
it says on the box this is like a battery door opener to be honest with you I don't use it as
a battery door opener because the way that my hearing aid battery doors open, it's just so much
more functional for me to just open it with my finger but some hearing aid battery doors require
like a little pick to release either a spring that's holding the battery door open or just to
pry it open so this is helpful for some to open the battery doors but for me I use it as another
wax like scraper. I use it interchangeably with the wire loop tool. Okay, and last but not least
is the battery magnet so I probably don't use this one very much either because it takes me
longer to find this tool to use it than it does to just replace my hearing aid battery
but this is great for like anyone who feels clumsy, sometimes my hands are sweaty, and it's
hard for me to like grasp the battery hold onto the battery and change it so this is
great because once you have your battery door open, you can just use this nifty little magnet to just
look at that and then it's a lot easier to control and take off than just put in a new one. So I do like
this tool but like I said sometimes it's hard to find this little gadget I've gotta work on
putting it in the same place so that I know where to find it so there is the five in one hearing aid
tool kit. I absolutely love that I can use this! Like it was like $2.88 cents on Amazon
and I love that I can use this because it's just so much safer than like a needle going up my
hearing aid tubes so there it is I really like it I think it's worth it hence the fact I bought
three of them and then I'm sharing them with my other fellow hearing aid wearers! Do you have any
questions about this little kit? If so, I would love to hear in the comments below thank you so
much for sticking around to the end of this video I want to show you I know that sometimes you can
have like gunk or ear wax in your tubes is really hard to get out let me show you what I mean. Here's
a little helpful tip when you're taking your ear mold off to clean it always always be sure
to firmly grasp the hearing aid and the ear hook, if your ear hooks are like mine they're separate
from the actual hearing aid, it's important to firmly grasp this because if you just grab
the aid and yank on the tube you can break the ear hook. So be mindful of that, let me demonstrate:
Alright, so this is really hard to see but there are some gunks of wax in my mold
and they definitely need to come out sometimes this little gadget does not quite do the job. I
swear one of these days I'm going to like make a tool that will actually do this that has little
fuzzies but so I stick this in there and it just kind of scrapes it but it doesn't get rid
of the wax completely and so that's a little disappointing so if you have a situation where
you can't get the wax out you need to do a deep clean the way to deep clean an ear mold is to use
soap and water. Now, never ever ever ever get your hearing aid part wet this is an electronic this is
like a phone, if it gets wet it will be damaged so always disconnect your ear mold from your hearing
aid and so what I like to do is I like to get some warm soapy water, pump some soap into my hand,
and wash it over my ear mold, and then I will hold this under the stream of water and it will flush
out it does a great job hot water will just dissolve almost any wax that I've ever seen
so I just like to deep clean my mold that way and then I let it dry overnight on a towel or in
my dry aid kit. These tools are especially helpful to clean the hearing aid part of your hearing aid
not just your mold, for example that wax brush though you can use it for a mold it's great to
kind of clean out the areas by the microphones of your hearing aid which is usually these top
lines if you see them on your hair and then right there so and sometimes gunk or skin cells get in
the ridges of your hearing aid so it's great to use these to kind of clean that out as well
so this tool not only cleans molds but it cleans hearing aids safely as well so just remember again,
these are a dry clean item meaning no water don't ever wash these with water or soap or
any kind of liquid but these are great for soap and water just make sure you detach them before
you use them. If you have any hearing aid cleaning questions please let me know in the comments below!
I typically clean my ear mold about twice a month depending on how much earwax or cerumen
my ear is producing if you haven't already please like this video and subscribe to my channel! I
look forward to making more great content and videos for you. I hope you have a great day! Bye!