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Preventing Moisture from Damaging My Hearing Aids

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Hi, I’d like your input on something. I am relatively athletic and work out almost every day for an hour either on a spin bike or elliptical machine. Given the high intensity workout, I sweat a lot and that damaged my right hearing aid. (Phonak Lumity) Luckily, Phonak is refurbishing both hearing aids. Could you please provide me all steps I can take to prevent this problem from happening again? (Dehydrator, headband, hearing aid sleeves, cleaning etc) As always, your help is greatly appreciated.

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Thanks for your response. I want to wear the hearing aids during workouts since I stream music of videos from my Android tablet. I recently purchased a PerfectDry Lux but the problem is that my workouts are at the gym and since it takes 45 minutes to dry the hearing aids, I don’t use the dryer until I get home.

I have always sweat a lot. Used Phonaks exclusively when I wore aids, never had a problem with them over the years. I did use the professional Dry & Store every night. It has the UV light that kills germs and bacteria too. Rarely ever had itchy ears. Dryers are a win win IMO.

Depending on your hearing loss you might be able to use ear buds or cheap hearing aids while exercising.

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If the 45 min is an issue, get a portable usb battery. The dehumidifier does not use much power (< 5 watts) and it’s small enough to carry around.

Another option is to buy a cheap Hearing Aid Dryer with Desiccant that it is also very portable .

I just use my Airppds Pro at the gym —

I have this same problem. Mine is from exercising compounded with hot flashes. It’s a nightmare how bad I sweat.

This is not ideal but what I’ve found that works the best are some sweat absorber headbands I got from Amazon plus I keep a clean dry towel either on my treadmill or close by and dry my ears under the aids often plus I put the headboard on like normal then push it under the aids on the back of my ears so the band is against my skin and the aids lays on the band. Not sure if this makes sense but It helps tremendously!

These are the ones I’ve got but they make all kinds.

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