Rulings on breaking the fast out of compulsion or ignorance

Dr. Zakir: As far as a person who’s taking treatment for Asthma, there’re different types of treatment taken for person suffering from Asthma, it can be puffers, it can be oxygen, it can be vaporizers, it can be tablets and capsules, in short when a person uses a puffer the gas goes by force into the lungs, expands the lungs and in no way does it break the fast because its mere gas going to the lungs, its not a food, it doesn’t go into the stomach and its only gas so this does not break the fast if a person uses a puffer.
As far as oxygen is concerned that too its inhaled goes in the lungs comes out, so oxygen per se also does not break the fast, does not invalidate the fast.
But as far as vaporizers are concerned, vaporizers can be of different types, can be in form of liquid, can be gaseous, in form or particles and this medicine is put in a container and once the button is pressed the pressure which comes and by pressure it enters into the lungs and it may be through a nozzle, can be through a mask, but when it enters the lungs there are high chances there are particles which may even go into the stomach. So that’s the reason most of the scholar say that vaporizers as a treatment for Asthma, it will break the fast.
As far as capsules are concerned, the capsules, they contain the medicine in a form of a powder, it has a covering. Once you put in the container and when the pressure is released, it comes out by force but this too can enter the stomach, the particles. So even using these capsules as the treatment of Asthma it will surely break the fast. So only two things which are permitted as far as a person suffering from the disease of Asthma is puffers and oxygen, this will not break the fast.