Some of the potential risks and side effects include: burning the face, neck, eardrum, middle ear, or ear canal from hot wax or ash starting a fire puncturing the eardrum blocking the eardrum with candle wax bleeding contracting secondary infections experiencing temporary hearing loss developing otitis externa (swimmers ear) causing damage to the middle ear Such risks increase greatly when children are involved, as they tend to move around during the procedure, which can allow hot wax or ash to fall outside the protection of the covering
A lot of patients ask me, what about edibles
Depending on the pollutant, this reaction can generate harmful byproducts, such as ozone, formaldehyde, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon monoxide
Historically PG has been used as a food additive, in fact some of your favourite food and drink probably has Propylene Glycol in it