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After taking eye drops, feels taste in throat whilst fasting
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Question
: If a person puts some (medical) eye drops in his eye(s) during the night and then found it's taste in his throat the (following) day, (does this affect his fast)?

Response: If he put the (medical) eye drops in his eyes during the night and found it's taste in his throat during the (following) day, then I anticipate this will not affect (the correctness of his fast, inshaa.-Allaah).

Shaykh Abaa Butayn
Fataawa Ramadhaan - Volume 2, Page 513, Fatwa No.476
ad-Durar as-Sunniyyah fil-Ajwibah an-Najdiyyah - Volume 5, Page 351