The Use of Inhalers and Nutritional Injections by an Asthma Patient While Fasting
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Question:
The questioner says: If a person has asthma, which is shortness of breath, and he may use an inhaler, or he may use asthma injections, and some nutrients are added to those injections, what is the ruling on using them?
Answer:
Injections that are administered intravenously break the fast of the fasting person; he is not permitted to use them except in the case of dire necessity. In that case, he may break his fast, and praise be to Allah, it is accepted. However, if he is able to fast, then intravenous injections break his fast. As for the inhaler that delivers air and which he is compelled to use, there is no harm in using it.
The questioner says: If a person has asthma, which is shortness of breath, and he may use an inhaler, or he may use asthma injections, and some nutrients are added to those injections, what is the ruling on using them?
Answer:
Injections that are administered intravenously break the fast of the fasting person; he is not permitted to use them except in the case of dire necessity. In that case, he may break his fast, and praise be to Allah, it is accepted. However, if he is able to fast, then intravenous injections break his fast. As for the inhaler that delivers air and which he is compelled to use, there is no harm in using it.
Source
فتاوى رمضانية — islamhouse.com (53:10)
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