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A tight squeeze on digestion!
Second year students on the Level 3 Health and Social Care programme have been learning about the care needs of individuals with digestive conditions such as coeliac disease and IBS recently. They were asked to demonstrate peristalsis using a wonderfully inventive tactile method: baked beans in tight!
Pictured L-R: Nia, Isabelle and Jakub feeling how food moves through the intestines
The baked beans represented the contents of the digestive tract, and the tights were the intestines. By squeezing and releasing the tights, they were able to feel how peristalsis, the rhythmic contractions that move food through the digestive system, works.
Through this hands-on approach our students were able to gain a tactile understanding of the process. It was a fun and engaging way to learn about a complex bodily function.
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