Hearing Aids - Anyone Know Of A Liquid Which Clears Blocking Wax?

[jourdain2]

OH is in hospital.  Nurses complaining that he doesn't do as asked.  I discovered that his hearing aids weretotally blocked by wax, so he couldn't hear them. They don't seem to think it is their job to clear them.  I've done my best but he has ear moulds and one of the tubes in one of them is totally blocked and I couldn't ream it out.

Does anyone know of a liquid that I could dip the mould into to get rid of the blockage?  Please?

[jourdain2]

Rosetta, it's kind of you to ask. He was doing well at home - then started wheezing, then blue-lighted in.

The hospital had changed his prescription for diuretics from 3mg daily to 0.5mg. Obviously, we didn't question it. 6 weeks later (now) he is back, critical with lungs full of water and at one point his heart stopped because of working too hard.  He's now still very, very ill on intravenous diurectics.   I am impotently furious.

[barry1010]

I am sorry to hear this, a very sad situation. Keep trying the audiology. 

[Canis_Lupus]

Just Try Pipe Cleaners

I find that if I use them on regular  basis my aids stay clear of wax

[campbellking]

Hi, I work at a hospital. If the hearing aids are provided by the NHS then they will service them. Our audiology department cleans and services  them if I pop them up if a patient is admitted with problems with them . Don't have to make an appointment, normally only takes a few minutes. They won't do this for private hearing aids

[gingejbee]

NHS aids supplied by Specsavers are supplied with cleaning wires specifically for this purpose.

[MargoTester]

My husband is in hospital too at the moment his is very deaf even with hearing aids. They have put a pre-printed sign to this effect over his bed which helps a lot

[jourdain2]

Thanks, he has NHS aids. The Audiology dept. finally turned up the other day, but his Right Ear is blocked with wax.  It is(apparently) NOT their job to clear it (???!!!).  T  he nurses are putting softening drops in and hoping that ENT will turn up to clear away the wax before he is moved to re-hab in a nearby hospital. 

This is Bridlington, but it is across the county border, so I have been advised that if ENT Scarborough have not managed to clear his ear wax before he moves - they will not attend at Bridlington.  It hgas been suggested that I then employ someone to travel to the hospital to do the job!  All the organising will be up to me on top of everything else.... he is extremely ill.

Awful!

[Canary42]

Unfortunately hospital care varies from hospital to hosital, and sometimes from ward to ward.  My mum was in Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital with a perforated bowel and the doctors and nursing staff (Brundall Ward) were magnificent.  Later we moved her to Twickenham to be nearer family and she ended up in Kingston Hospital which was absolutely terrible, no comparison.  

[JinnyJoan]

i wear a hearing aid and nothing seems to clean it - you need to know how to remove the tubing from ear to aid and replace it with new tubing - easy done if you know how to do it