These characters are part of Dr. Carlos de Sola’s team. Each doll is an organ with a profession, involved in digestion. They help explain to children the functions of the digestive system:
- Liver: it is the boss, teacher and chemist. It receives information from the blood, bile and organizes metabolism.
- Stomach: it is the public relations, it is in contact with the other organs. It destroys, dissolves and dismantles food. It is like a junkyard; it has liquids, juices and degreasers, called enzymes, to dissolve it.
- Small intestine: receives food from the stomach. It is like a fisherman and is attentive with its rod to catch interesting food.
- Pancreas: it’s a mason with a big heart, but when it gets angry, it makes a fuss, like a bomb going off. But then it makes insulin, which is like music that it sends to the cells.
- Esophagus: it is the waiter that carries food from the mouth to the stomach. When it gets tired we have swallowing problems to swallow.
- Gallbladder: it is represented as a pastry case. When food passes through the duodenum (part of the small intestine), it adds bile. In patients without gallbladder, the bile goes on one side and the food on the other, causing poor digestion.
- Colon: receives the liquid intestinal contents, removes the water and packs it to go to the bathroom once a day.
- Rectum: it is in charge of taking out the package. They are synchronized muscles, and they all have to work well so that the excrement can come out.
- Appendix: this is the last organ, which seems to do nothing and is shown sitting in a chair, but it is essential. It controls the intestinal flora.
The digestive system is complex. This little story allows us to explain, with a touch of humor, the function of each organ to children with intestinal complaints.