Dinner and not touching anything

[Dorothy23Participant]

Help! When my mum goes to prepare our dinners, she won’t touching anything until she’s dipped her hands in soapy water, dried her hands on a towel and used antibac over and over. She’s so worried that food is cooked thoroughly and always thinks it isn’t and gets super anxious about the uncertainty. As far as I know, this has got to be ocd. She can spend a few hours doing this. Will her ocd get better with age? I cannot  handled this much longer…any ideas what to do?

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