Health during fasting is a blessing beyond measure. How much worship with double rewards promises we can do if our body condition is prime. But what if the illness goes and our body in the opposite condition?
Fasting or Not Fasting?
People who are sick are allowed to break their fast. What is meant by illness that is permissible to break is if there is medical evidence (information from doctor-ed), experience or he is sure that fasting will give a madharat, may exacerbate his illness or slow his healing, then he is allowed not to fast. However, a person suffering from a mild disease should continue to fast by taking the medicine as a cause to relieve his illness. Well, how is the rule of taking medicine when fasting? Though someone can take medicine from the time to break the fast. First of all, we first identify the rules of taking the right medicine.
Wrong Vision Drinking Drug Rules
To get the optimum medicinal effect, we should take the medicine in the right dosage and the right time. Examples of frequent cases are as follows:
Sofia's mother is having fever and headaches. Doctors give him fever and pain relievers in the form of paracetamol to drink 3 times daily after meals. Sofia's mother took the drug after breakfast at 6:00, after lunch at 12:00 and after dinner at 18:00. What happened?
The fever can be overcome and the heat goes down. But the headache still recur at night even though it has subsided during the day. This is due to the distance of time taking unequal drugs. The distance is too long at night. So the availability of drugs in the body decreases and not enough to overcome the headache.
The purpose of the drug taken 2 or 3 times is to keep the drug levels in the body within the range of therapy ie the drug levels that give the effect of healing. This depends on the type and nature of the drug. There are drugs that are quickly removed from the body so that the frequency of taking medication becomes frequent. There is also a drug that is slowly removed from the body so that the frequency of taking medication becomes rare. Drug levels can be maintained stable in the body when taken within a regular watu distance. For example, drugs taken 3 times a day, then the drug is taken every 8 hours while the drug is taken 2 times a day then taken every 12 hours.
Then, Why Are There Drugs Taken Before and After Eating?
Drugs are chemical compounds that have various properties and effects. When taken, the drug will pass through the stomach and then into the intestine. A small percentage of the drug is absorbed in the stomach and is mostly absorbed in the intestine. Drugs in general can be absorbed properly if there is no disturbance in the stomach and intestines such as food. Uniquely, there are also drugs that absorption is helped by food. This is what determines when a drug should be taken before or after meals.
Well, what is meant before eating is when the stomach is empty. While the intended after meal is shortly after eating, when the stomach still contains food and should not pass from 2 hours. If more than 2 hours, the food has been processed and absorbed so that the conditions can be likened to before eating.
There are also medications that irritate the stomach so that it can cause peptic ulcers or exacerbate heartburn, these drugs taken after meals. Examples are painkillers -aspirin- and anti-inflammatory drugs - diclofenac and piroxicam-.
Drug Rules When Fasting
During Ramadan, the diet and drinking will change. The free time to take medication changes from 24 hours to just 10.5 hours.
