[Avodah] Pills on Yom Kippur

[Zvi Lampel]

On 9/12/2013 7:55 PM, avodah-request at lists.aishdas.org wrote:
> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:59:39 -0400
> From: Micha Berger<micha at aishdas.org>
>
> So can someone please explain to me the whole pills-on-YK
> thing?
There are poskim who do permit caffeine pills on other fast days, 
including Tish'a B'av, for the reason you noted--it is not derech 
achilah. On Yom Kippur, however, there is the additional concern of the 
gezeyrah against taking medicine. (And I'm not positive that there are 
no poskim who permit taking them without water.)

Zvi Lampel