The ruling on using eye and nose drops and an asthma inhaler during the daytime of Ramadan?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you. He says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on using inhalers for asthma patients during the days of Ramadan, and likewise eye and nose drops, if a person is fasting?
The Shaykh:
As for eye and nose drops, they are not permissible on the day of fasting; because they seep into the throat, they seep into the throat. So if a person puts the drop in his eye or in his ear, he finds its taste in his throat; because it seeped into his throat. So it is not permissible to use them during the day; he should postpone them until the night. As for using the inhaler for asthma, the one afflicted with asthma is considered a sick person. Yes. And Allah has permitted the sick person to break his fast, and to seek treatment, and to make up the day he broke his fast, making up its equivalent from other days during his days of health. Yes.
The questioner:
The asthma patient may not need it in the slightest degree; it may be that he is not in need of it throughout the day.
The Shaykh:
It has been established that the inhaler contains medicines, it contains medicines and moisture of water. In it is what is merely air, but it is air mixed with medicines and moisture. So this affects the fast. But we say that the one afflicted with asthma is a sick person, and it is permissible for the sick person to break his fast and seek treatment, and he makes it up from other days if that is facilitated for him.
May Allah reward you. He says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on using inhalers for asthma patients during the days of Ramadan, and likewise eye and nose drops, if a person is fasting?
The Shaykh:
As for eye and nose drops, they are not permissible on the day of fasting; because they seep into the throat, they seep into the throat. So if a person puts the drop in his eye or in his ear, he finds its taste in his throat; because it seeped into his throat. So it is not permissible to use them during the day; he should postpone them until the night. As for using the inhaler for asthma, the one afflicted with asthma is considered a sick person. Yes. And Allah has permitted the sick person to break his fast, and to seek treatment, and to make up the day he broke his fast, making up its equivalent from other days during his days of health. Yes.
The questioner:
The asthma patient may not need it in the slightest degree; it may be that he is not in need of it throughout the day.
The Shaykh:
It has been established that the inhaler contains medicines, it contains medicines and moisture of water. In it is what is merely air, but it is air mixed with medicines and moisture. So this affects the fast. But we say that the one afflicted with asthma is a sick person, and it is permissible for the sick person to break his fast and seek treatment, and he makes it up from other days if that is facilitated for him.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 5644- حكم استعمال قطرة العين والأنف وبخاخ الربو في نهار رمضان؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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