Mother feed (i.e. Breast feeding) provides essential nutrients, antibodies and immune cells to allow infant growth and protect them from infections. Mother feed not only have short term effects but it influences brain development as well as life time effects in many organ systems. This study was conducted to compare mother feed and bottle feed children at school going age. The self-administrated questionnaire survey was conducted including parents of children between 5 to 10 years of age (n=300). There was no significant difference found in the median age of children reported for, neither there was any significant difference in the weight of the two groups. However, bottle feed children significantly showed better performance in mathematics while mother feed children were significantly better in general science and physical activities at school. The study concluded that bottle feed or breast feed both provides nutrition and overall children were doing good.

Emotional stress due to psychological trauma  causes immune system dysfunction resulting in high risk of development of cancer. The study aimed to correlation psychological trauma in the past five years of cancer diagnosis. This study was a community based survey including cancer patients diagnosed with different cancers undergoing treatment or follow-up by using snowball sampling and questionnaire based technique.  The study was conducted during a period of one year from December 2019 till December 2020. All recruited patients were requested for an interview. The results of the study showed a high rate of major psychological trauma among cancer patients. Sudden death of a close relative with and without trauma of natural disaster were high. The study conclude that risk of cancer development rises with major emotional trauma specially death of a close relative.

Probiotics are recently getting popular as immunity enhancers, and being investigated to treat acute infections, including gastroenteritis. Commonly used probiotics have been in practice for ancient periods. This study was thus conducted to evaluate the knowledge of mothers of school-going children regarding the use of probiotics in their children's diet. Our results showed that 23% of women were aware of probiotics and their health benefits out of 200 women surveyed, while 16% had never heard of probiotics. However great majority were taking probiotic-rich food, including yogurt, buttermilk, and cheese, in their diet. The knowledge of the use of probiotics in mothers was significantly associated with mothers' level of education. We conclude that there is limited knowledge of probiotics and their health benefits in mothers, but given the anecdotal evidence and inherited dietary patterns, probiotics are part of the daily diet of the school-going children in our study population.