Food or sweets with dye;medicine which contains ethanol alcohol

Question

Medicine which contains ethanol alcohol and on the bottle it states warning may cause drowsiness and there is a alternative to the medicine is it permissible to cosume such medicine?
2.Why is it halal because on the bottle is is written that may cause drowsiness which means that it may intoxicate?

zha654 · Answer

1)If you can afford then buy it i.e. the alternative.
2) At times due to necessity things which are illegal under local circumstances become permissible as per need in a moderate limit as dire need. Alcohol which is Haraam has many specification.