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Yom Kippur Fast – Psychiatric Medications with Food

Question

A person who regularly takes a Pride pill in the evening, and in the morning takes medications that stabilize his mental health — Dekinet and Cipralex — and he cannot swallow a pill except with a small bite of food: what should he do on Yom Kippur?

Answer

Shalom u'vrachah 

The pills may be swallowed with a small amount of food. 

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