This is basically just how I clean my hearing aids.
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Hello hello! If we can actually see
them that would be great, wouldn't it? These are the- hang on, let's see if we can read,
Phonak Nathos Auto Micro. I don't know if that means anything to anyone, but these are
the hearing aids and I'm going to show you how to clean them. It's quite straightfoward,
actually. Uh, and what I'm also gonna do today is change the tubes, which is even more straight
forward than the cleaning. I'll just do one at a time. This is the right one. On the inside
here it has a little red bit and it's red for right, and blue for left. I apologise
for the shaking. And then again here, it's the blue one. What I'm gonna do first is just
take this bit and I'm going to twist it off, like so. Whey, there we go. Separated. This
bit is the body of the hearing aid, it generally doesn't need much cleaning, but if it does,
just take a baby wipe, and just give it like a quick wipe over, but being very careful
not to get the- any moisture around this bit here. That's about as much as I clean the
body unless there's actually anything on it that needs cleaning, so I'm going to set that
over there. Now with the tube, I'm going to take that same baby wipe and I'm just going
to wipe the ear dome. This is the bit that goes in the ear, and I don't know if you can
see, but if you make a pinching motion towards the end it is built to expel the wax apparently.
So I do that bit first, nice and clean, and then I might give the rest of the tube a little
bit of a wipe. There we go. Now to clean these hearing aids you don't need to use water or
anything, don't put any water down the tube, the cleaning wire will take care of it. I
don't do anything to this before I put it in, so you just find the little hole here and then
just thread the wire down the tube, and it should come out the other side. You can just
give it a bit of a wiggle and pull it out. And that should clear any sort of blockages
that are in the tube, and it should push it out the other side here. And then once that
is done and only after that is done, I take my wipe and then I clean, just give it a wipe
to make sure I've got anything that was on the tube off of the cleaning wire, and then
set it aside. This helps to stop any moisture getting in the tube, so then we just screw
this back on like so. Obviously I just repeat that on the other side. And what I'm actually
going to do today is I'm going to change the tubes, and because they are just one piece
they are very simple. So all you have to do is make sure you pick up the right tube, so
we are doing the red one and it's got a little bit- can you see that red mark there? That
is red for right, and then we've got our other one here and it is blue for left. Once you've
got the right tube you can screw it on. Now if you can see the difference between these
two tubes here, they used to be the same size but over the time of having my hearing aids,
they have stretched and disformed a bit, the shape has changed, and they're just a little
bit more flimsy and not- not as good and they don't fit as well, so time to change. They
said that you should change them, well they need changing around every 6 months, I'm a
little bit short of 6 months, but because I have my Vogmask as well, um, that pulls
on the hearing aids a little bit more and it put a bit more stress on the tubes so we
will change them early I suppose. So we just get it together and twist on. Ta-da! Sorted.
And then I'm just gonna do the same on the other one. I'm not going to clean this one
because that is sort of a waste. Even though it's the only one left, still check that you
have two different ones. And you just screw that in like that. There we go. Two nicely
cleaned hearing aids. And what I'm probably going to do is trim these bits because they
irritate me and while they do bend over time to fit the shape of your ear, I don't really
need them, so I'm just gonna cut them off. I will cut them off about the same length
as this one because I know this one fits. This is going to be really interesting to
watch me do this. There we are. And then just trim. I'm just gonna compare this one like
that and then just trim it off. There we are! and then we can put the other cleaning wire
which has now dried back in the box, and we are ready to go. Don't forget to like this
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