The author, a physician, recommends “vigorous treatment with antibiotics” if OCD patients are found to have antibodies in their systems (via spinal tap, ouch).
The strep is most likely long gone from the system then - the antibodies lingering, and antibiotics wouldn’t help.
My son has OCD, and Asperger’s, so this is interesting.
Cut him and tell him to “Rub dirt in it”.
I had some OCD as a child. I was never diagnosed but I would repeatedly count steps so that I would take the same amount of steps per foot. I counted and made patterns out of very mundane tasks that had to be performed a certain way.
I most likely looked insane in front of a door taking extra steps with either foot so they would be even. I still catch myself doing very minor forms of OCD tasks, but nothing as severe as when I was a teen.
I never had lots of strep but I had ear infections severe enough to cause damage in both ears but the left one is particularly bad.