Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Does an Asthma Inhaler Break the Fast

			So the question is about whether a
person should use the asthma form,
		

			if they feel a restriction in the
lungs, and they have breathing
		

			problems while fasting. I mean, it
depends on how much you can manage
		

			at the end of the day, yo FOSS
will break if you use an asthma
		

			pump. And if it does get
difficult, you should use the
		

			asthma pump. Because you know, you
want to be able to maintain your
		

			health. However, every person
knows their limits. So if a person
		

			knows that, if I just bear it for
the next hour, it'll come down, if
		

			I go to sleep for a while, I'll
calm down, and they want to
		

			protect their fast and they can do
that. But if a person knows that
		

			I'm just not going to be able to
carry on, then yeah, you're going
		

			to have to take that asthma home,
it will break the fast because
		

			although it's generally
		

			aerosol, generally, asthma forms
are generally here, so you can get
		

			the powdered version as well, of
salbutamol. But generally, it's
		

			through the aerosol. So although
some people try to argue that it
		

			only goes down into the lungs and
doesn't go into the stomach, and
		

			anything that goes into the lungs
only and not in the stomach should
		

			not break the fast. However,
studies show that part of it does
		

			go into the stomach, and you can't
be secure that it doesn't go into
		

			the stomach. That's why asthma
forms do break the fast, right? So
		

			it will break the fast but you
won't be sinful for doing so, if
		

			you had to break it. Just today,
Somebody contacted me that he's
		

			got type one diabetes, where he's
gotten an
		

			insulin pump. So this is something
that stays on your body. And admit
		

			it keeps checking every 15 minutes
or half an hour, your insulin
		

			levels, and then it
		

			releases insulin into your system.
Sometimes it can malfunction or
		

			sometimes your body can react in a
different way. So he says I woke
		

			up this morning with I forget the
number one over four or something
		

			like that, which was a very low
hypoglycemia. I think it's cold,
		

			and it's very dangerous. I mean,
you could go into a coma, you
		

			could die because of that. So he
says I quickly ate something. But
		

			the thing was that he said, I
didn't really feel much. I only
		

			noticed it when I checked my
reading, which is even more
		

			dangerous, if you don't know. But
clearly in that kind of a case.
		

			It's a very dangerous situation to
be in. So you have to break your
		

			fast in that case, but with asthma
situation, you don't have to break
		

			your fast. You will know your
tolerance level. Am I going to get
		

			better within an hour or something
like that? Or do I want to you
		

			know, I just can't function I'm
going to have to break it. So
		

			that's what you do.
		

			You have to keep up a cover
afterwards. You have to make up on
		

			fast afterwards. You don't have to
do a thorough