What is the ruling on using an inhaler, nasal drops, and eye drops during Ramadan?
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The questioner : A questioner asks about using an inhaler, nasal drops, and eye drops during Ramadan.
The Shaykh : Yes. The eye, the nose, and the mouth. He is now asking about three things. The mouth: he asked about the inhaler, which is for the mouth. The nose: about the drops. The eye: about the eye drops.
So we say: As for the eye drops, they do not harm at all, even if their taste is found in his throat, his fast is valid. This is because the eye is not a customary passage and is not something from which it is customary to take nourishment.
The nose is a place of nourishment, in the sense that a person may be nourished through his nose. Therefore, one should not put drops in the nose that reach the stomach.
However, if the drop is light and does not reach beyond the nasal cavity, there is nothing wrong with it. The evidence that the nose is a passage is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to al-Qa'ib ibn Simrah:Sunan Abi Dawud 2366Sahih (Al-Albani). This indicates the obligation to be careful to avoid exaggeration in sniffing for the fasting person, or at least the dislike of exaggeration, so that water does not reach his stomach.
The third: What is it? The mouth: the inhaler that a person uses when he has difficulty breathing. There is nothing wrong with this. There is also nothing wrong with it because it is air that causes the respiratory vessels to open. This is not something that reaches the stomach, which is the place of nourishment. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Yes. The eye, the nose, and the mouth. He is now asking about three things. The mouth: he asked about the inhaler, which is for the mouth. The nose: about the drops. The eye: about the eye drops.
So we say: As for the eye drops, they do not harm at all, even if their taste is found in his throat, his fast is valid. This is because the eye is not a customary passage and is not something from which it is customary to take nourishment.
The nose is a place of nourishment, in the sense that a person may be nourished through his nose. Therefore, one should not put drops in the nose that reach the stomach.
However, if the drop is light and does not reach beyond the nasal cavity, there is nothing wrong with it. The evidence that the nose is a passage is the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to al-Qa'ib ibn Simrah:
Snuff up water freely unless you are fasting.
بالغ في الاستنشاق إلا أن تكون صائماThe third: What is it? The mouth: the inhaler that a person uses when he has difficulty breathing. There is nothing wrong with this. There is also nothing wrong with it because it is air that causes the respiratory vessels to open. This is not something that reaches the stomach, which is the place of nourishment. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.