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My mam has food phobia, not eating food properly even water also need to filter for drinking.
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This is not phobia but obsession. She needs counselling. Usually when people don’t know the reality about hygiene they tend to get scared and overdo things. Once she know the reality of infection of bacteria around us. She may stop doing it.
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