How Far Above Sea Level You Are
If you have flown with your hearing aids before, you would have noticed a slight decrease in battery life. This is because higher altitudes have less oxygen in the atmosphere. Batteries rely very heavily on oxygen to activate the materials within the battery to provide optimal power.
How Often You Use Your Aid
Similar to any technology the more you use your aid and the more features or volume you use will decrease the battery life. If you use your phone all day, while using the torch setting, brighter screen or higher volume it drains the battery faster the exact same thing applies to your aid.
The Severity Of Hearing Loss
The more severe your hearing loss, the stronger your hearing aids need to work, to amplify the sound. If the hearing aids are working harder so you don’t have to their batteries’ life will be more strongly impacted
The Included Technology
If you hearing aid includes added technology, such as tinnitus masking properties a more advanced and sensory technology is included. This will lead to a rescued battery life as the battery has to work harder to adapt to the environment and masking the ringing in your ears. A lot of the newer hearing aids include tinnitus masking properties as it is a common side effect of hearing loss. Due to tinnitus masking becoming an included feature in most hearing aids, you will not notice a huge difference in battery life.
How You Manage The Aid
With both rechargeable and battery powered aids, the way you treat and handle them will impact the overall battery and hearing aid health.
Weather Conditions
Humidity and temperature are the biggest environmental conditions that will impact your battery health and lifespan. Additionally for battery powered aid’s function and health are strongly impacted by moisture and humidity. With high humidity more moisture builds up creating a higher risk to battery swelling, battery leakage and overall damage to the aid. This can be taken care of by airing out the aid and ensuring the dry out. Low humidity does the opposite and dry’s out the aid and battery causing shrinkage, also damaging the performance of the battery. You can use de-humidifiers or temperature regulators if you are located in more extreme temperature. If you aren’t, airing out your batteries and the compartment of where the batteries sit, will do the trick.
