BEST Way to SAVE Hearing Aids From Water Damage? | REDUX Hearing Aid Dehydration Review
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- BEST Way to SAVE Hearing Aids From Water Damage? | REDUX Hearing Aid Dehydration Review. Dr. Cliff Olson, Audiologist and founder of Applied Hearing Solutions in Phoenix Arizona, reviews the REDUX Hearing Aid Dehydration system to see if it is the best way to get water out of hearing aids.
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As usual, you’re on the cutting edge! Glad to know you have that device, especially in case of a water “emergency”!
Marines are always the "Tip of the Spear"! Just trying to carry on that legacy in Hearing Care!
@@DrCliffAuD I'm actually curious how much is the redux system anyway? I'd imagine like 2 to 4 grand
I did a trial of this system, and while I really did enjoy using it, (especially the monitoring and reporting) it was extremely difficult to justify the rather staggering costs associated with it, especially when compared to the moisture removal system that I already employ (and have already paid for).
I just got hearing aids 2 weeks ago and your videos have been very helpful and informative
Just a note-you had suggested that we have a dryer for nightly use. I purchased the Zephyr and it has saved my hearing aids twice-both times I started a shower without removing them. On one occasion the noise was enough to tell me I was in trouble. While not a 12 minute procedure the Zephyr did rescue my aids. Just a note of thanks for all your suggestions.
Thanks for sharing Karl. I recommend the Zephyr to most of my patients for at-home use. I'm currently testing it's true effectiveness.
Just discovered you channel and I’m so glad to have done so. I’m an excessive sweater and I have a problem with static in my charge n go aids. I’ve had them for almost 2 years and they otherwise work well. I wish I had a dehydrating charging case, though. Is there a better option for someone with hyperhydrosis? Thanks again!
Thanks, Dr. Cliff. Now I want one of those!
Worth every penny!
I have a “Dreve” electrical drying bag for hearing aids. I put them in it for a night. It heats up to 65C and then cools down to 45C. How effective is this system?
Interesting video. Did you have to purchase the system, and if so how much does it cost. Do you see the possibility that in the future they will make and at home system?
The device can only be leased. Not sure if they will ever make an at home version. The device would probably be cost prohibitive for most consumers.
Very cool! When I slipped and took an unexpected swim up to my chest a few years back, at least my hearing aids didn't get wet, but my phone did. I pulled out the battery ASAP, and when I got home, put it in a ziplock bag with my opened "Hal-Hen Super Dri-Aid" next to it overnight. Fortunately everything worked fine the next morning and I didn't get any frostbite (it was January when this happened, Brrrrr!!!). Off subject, but will you be doing a review of the Oticon Xceed any time soon? My Audiologist just ordered one for me, a UP. I've been trying to dig up info on it, but haven't seen much yet other than Oticon's own advertisements.
I was going to include it in my video about the best BTE hearing aids, but don't have a specific video dedicated to it.
Great video! Would you be doing a video on Cochlear's new Kanso 2 processor?
Whenever Covid allows me to work with my Cochlear Rep here in Arizona.
It's hot and humid out there today, and I should buy one of these things! I'm still in a research mode for my hearing aid ideas for aging hunters. But I have three decades of experience wearing these devices, so I think I can put some ideas together. One think I know for certain that hearing is key to good hunting success. I recently had cataract surgery and my vision is 20/20! Now if only they could do this for my hearing!
Cool DR Cliff how does this system compare to a Jodi Vac in terms of effectiveness?
Hello I am from Bangladesh
I am using enzo resound hearing aids with Bluetooth technology. Problem is my hearing aids are not waterproof. What can I do to save my hearing aids from being damaged during heavy rainfall?
I bought a prefectdry lux box for overnight drying. Obviously not enough if I wore it in shower, but how about normal sweaty conditions?
Isuffer from fracture of petrous parto temporal bone due to accident and and ETD so how can solve it and tymanometry reflex absent
I accidentally put my hearing aids through the washing machine one works fine the other has a buzzing noise which I assume is I fixable without repairs
Can you please do review on the Redux Home product.
What do you recommend for a home system if we can’t find someone who has the Redux ? Also is it feasible to even have a Redux system in a home. Cost?
Hi Maribeth, I am going to test a variety of at-home options in the upcoming weeks. I typically recommend the Zephyr by Dry & Store to my patients. The Redux is used on a Leasing agreement with a clinic, they cannot be purchased. Would not be feasible in most cases for home use, although for individuals who suffer from constant moisture issues, that could be debatable.
Doct iam not have the malicus,incus and stapes . What is the solution
Hi I have a question for you will they ever get an extra battery pack for the White ex moment I believe mine are the 330 version do you know if they will ever do it I have it but I wish that they had the extra power pack in case we ever get a Hydro outage it is not fair I live in Canada they are the ones that were given to me because I am on disability pension I guess they are the ones that were made for the specialized problems with my ears
How about testing a night in a silica gel container and then in a Redux cycle to see if any moisture remains?
I'm currently working on evaluating the moisture removal capabilities of many different consumer dehydrators.
Hello I am in the UK should my audiologist have given me the main charger or is it just standard in USA they get it; the USB mains came with my Phonak
Off the video topic, but responding to a fresh video seemed most direct. There's a topic I hope you might do a video on;the premise takes a minute to set up; please bear with me. As I mentioned a few weeks ago (and you responded, and thanks), I've had, and continue to have, much better results with the Bose Hearphones than with current traditional hearing aids. (I started with a top line 2014 Starkey pair, which was grand, but they aged out of optimum effectiveness as my prescription was changing.) An audiology office doing a study with Bose introduced me to the Hearphones; they took some getting used to (the occlusion effect in particulasr, which I now [ironically] find comforting), but once I did, I couldn't go back to traditional hearing aids, and I tried, with a best-practices audiologist, three different top-line pairs (a Widex and two from Starkey, even working with the Starkey rep). The issue is two-fold: First, most hearing aids are designed to concentrate pretty narrowly on speech; for me that's way too limiting (also, now that the proportion of enhancement to my natural hearing seems to have flipped, I find the starkness of that to be peaky and harsh). Second and most importantly: by profession I'm a musical theatre composer-lyricist and teacher; I need to hear SO much wider a bandwidth than regular hearing aids seem to be able to enhance. The Hearphones may sound like my full audiological life coming through a stereo receiver; but they do sound like my full audiological life. And where they fall short on nuance (sometimes they do, I won't go into detail here), the BeHear Access, while not consistent or well-engineered enough (yet) to be MY daily driver, IS good enough to take up the slack when I need more sensitivity of musical detail in the upper ranges (unlike the Hearphones, the Access can actually be adjusted to your specific profile). Indeed, I've lost count of the hearing aid wearers I've met who I invited to try my Hearphones for a few minutes, whose eyes went wide with surprise and exclaimed that it was much better. That being said (as you like to say), I don't know what their audiologic care was like, and I understand TOTALLY how personal an experience electronic enhancement can be. Mileage absolutely varies, and what's better for me may not be better for most with less idiosyncratic needs. Still - having spoken to fellow hearing loss sufferers and even an activist who's a friend and colleague of mine, I know I'm not alone in this; the desire many patients have for hearing aid manufacturers to widen the bandwidth range and depth is a real thing. I don't know if you come across people like me in your practice … but might you do a video about our subset? Thanks!
Hi David, this is a pretty clear cut case of you preferring more Low-Frequency and less High-Frequency based on your individual perceptions. Hearing aids can be set up acoustically similar if you are willing to have occlusion with them as well. My preferred method is to perform a REM with the Hearphones, and see which frequency components you are preferring. Then, we can program a hearing aid to accommodate your perceptions. We can also setup different programs for different things if your "needs" in a particular moment are different. Just sounds like the audiologist needs to get a little more involved in the process of solving the problem. However, it is easy for me to judge from a distance. Perhaps you just prefer the acoustical characteristics of the Bose Hearphones.
@@DrCliffAuD I do now, because I've gotten so used to them, but that's still relative to what I was getting out of new hearing aids. For example, what I LIKED about even the new hearing aids was a return to a more natural-seeming "environmental surround", just kind of walking around the city, not having to actually communicate - but once I was in an environment (say, a coffee shop), where real interaction was needed, I didn't like the quality of what I was hearing and, frankly, didn't hear as well, and now I AM talking about speech. (I usually have my old Starkeys with me, in case I have to recharge the Hearphones midday, and just this past weekend I wore them for about 30 minutes and was nostalgic for what they had provided once; there was still evidence of it.) And streaming sounded emaciated to me, almost like an oldschool transistor radio. [Pause] I hate to say it, but maybe my last audiologist wasn't as good (for me) as I thought. I IMPLORED her to listen to the Hearphones to see what I was getting at; and she did, and she was very nice about it, but it was cursory: less than a minute; only enough for her to clock the broad difference. (I've since encountered another audiologist I liked less who was even openly cynical about them.) Even the Starkey rep - again, VERY nice - tried, for a few moments, to find some significance in the volume gain and treble/bass settings I was using that would reframe the better experience I was having as somehow not as beneficial. But the truth is, I have minimal to no problem with speech using the Hearphones; not with sense, not with nuance, and if I use the 360º setting, not with directionality (noisy environments vary upon the characteristics, but little that's beyond adjusting for); what I'd need in hearing aids, on TOP of that, would be equal quality of sound in music, ambient and streamed. As indicated above, if I could combine the richness of sound I get from the Bose with the individual adjustability I occasionally need from the BeHear Access … well, that would be high cotton indeed. (PS - My significant loss is in the high frequency. But I feel like I need a fuller low frequency for, I don't know, call it ballast; a sense of real fullness.)
@@Pelaphus Great explanation!!!
For what it is worth I agree with you 1000%%%.
I have faith that combining the both technologies will happen at some point.
Especially if Bose cuts into the HA market enough to push the HA manufacturers a bit.
In bad meed for hearing aid that can be used while swimming. My son goes to mainstream school and will have swimming lessons next year. I dont want hem to feel diffrent from his classmate and want hem to have his swimmong classes with them while hearing. Need help please. Previously he used aquaris hearing aid but they are not working anymore.
The Aquaris was a wonderful device. I certainly miss being able to fit my patient's with it. Siemens, the manufacturer no longer suppports the product so your only hope would be to find a used pair, in good condition and have an audiologist program them for your son. Unfortunately if you have any issues it would be unlikely that you could get them serviced. I encourage you to write to Signa( the new name for Siemens hearing products) and voice you desire for a product like Aquaris. Good luck.
What about hearing aids that are IP68 certified like phonak marvel ?? How effective are they against sweat & accidental contact with water ??
I lost 50% hearing so can I use Airpod pro as Hearing Aids?
AirPods Pro Become Hearing Aids in iOS 14?
Depends on what you mean by 50% of your hearing since there are so many different aspects of hearing. That being said, the AirPods Pro are unlikely to be suitable for anything more severe than a mild to moderate hearing loss.
Dr. Cliff, what do you think of the Phonak C&C Dry-Cup for storing hearing aids?
For storing, or for daily use without being exposed to significant moisture from sweat or water, the Dry-Cups work pretty well. If you are a heavy sweater or submerge your devices in water, they are not super fast at removing moisture.
Cliff if rice can work on an inn in phone then it too should work on Hearing aids! Wish I’d tried that on my old Starkey’s
I'm going to test the effectiveness of Rice in a few weeks. 😂
@@DrCliffAuD I read that the whole point of rice is that people don't touch the phone. Damage is the same with or without rice, but if you turn it on too fast, you can cause more damage. So, only thing to help with phone is dismantle it as much as possible as fast as possible and blow out, eg with hairdryer. Unfortunately with this new phones, it's not much we customers can do since we can't even remove the battery, let alone open it further.
Also, dessicants or cat litter weren't that more efficient than rice when it comes down to the circuit damage. I mean, that was my conclusion. Based on that, I decided to go with just a box with a fan (since my air is dry (like I need humidifiers to bring it up around 40-50% no matter the season), and circulation of bigger amounts should work better than just with the air inside of the box, if I figured out how exactly zephyr and similar ones work, I didn't see holes for air so I assume they're air tight and depending only on dessicant to absorb that moisture), for HAs, and I hope my HCP have or will have this thing you just reviewed.
This device looks like a beast :)
With the advent of Covid-19, how do you disenfect the unit between uses for safety reasons?
Devices are sanitized before placing in the system, and we use rubbing alcohol to sanitize the system following as well.
An Old Guy I use a hair dryer to dry my hearing aids after I jump in the pool and go " Oh....." Do you think another technique is better, excluding the Redux?
As of right now, I would say the Zephyr, but I will be testing different dehumidifiers in the next few weeks.
@@DrCliffAuD Thank you for your response. I will wait for your reviews of dehumidifiers before I purchase anything. thanks again.
Sir, i feel tinnitus in my left ear its began from last 3 years, before it was very low sound now its became more louder and double sound ringing and buzzing.. also i noticed a dizziness and now i can’t hear from one affected ear, i tried hearing device but it doesn’t work in my case , my age is 27. Because of this tinnitus I can’t focus on anything, please suggest something 🙏🏼
Yes, it is absolutely CRITICAL that you get to see an ENT or Otologist to have them evaluate your ear. It could be a tumor that is growing larger. If it is, left unattended can kill you.
Where can i buy it？
Can't buy the system, it is a commercial grade product. You can lease it if you are a hearing care professional.
Can you do a video of recommended home dehydrator systems?
Could use redux to measure the moisture left in after drying in various home dryers
That project is on the docket. I've got a bunch of at home dehydrators to test.
@@DrCliffAuD Great! I hope PerfectDry LUX is one of them
@@DrCliffAuD can't wait to see that! You give through information, and I've learnt a ton from you!
My problem is excessive sweat pouring down over my ears.
Not much you can do for that other than to put an EarGear sleeve on your hearing aids.
We have the „Zephyr“ at home for my Cochlear Implants
I Love the Zephyr!
Please make new video about OTO-313, 7 July have results( sorry for my bad english)
Hi Danilo, I made a post update, however, I will likely wait until Phase 2 trials are complete.
Doctor Cliff, AuD you are the best ! when phase 2 is expected to be ready ? Thanks for your help.