Does using a wash and cream with a wick in the nose to treat a wound that has not yet healed invalidate the fast?
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If nothing reaches the throat during fasting, it does not affect the validity of the fast. Fasting is not affected by what enters the nose or mouth unless it goes beyond that.
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