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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Katie Wright

World Hearing Day: When you should be worried about ringing in your ears?

If you’ve ever got home from a loud concert, club or sporting event and noticed a high-pitched ringing or whirring sound in your ears, you’ve experienced tinnitus.

“Tinnitus is a description, not a diagnosis,” says Professor Paul O’Flynn, consultant ENT surgeon at The Wellington Hospital.

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