What is the process of dialysis?

What is the process of dialysis?

Answer:

• When a person has kidney failure, the waste products are removed by the  help of artificial kidney or haemodialysis.
• Artificial kidney is a physico - chemical device , based on the principle of separation of smaller solutes or ions from larger ions with the help of ultrafilter .
• The dialysis machine consists of a tube of semi permeable membrane which is coiled to the tank.
• This tank is filled with dialysing fluid i.e. glucose, water and salts has the same osmotic concentration as that of blood .
• As the patient's blood passes through the solution nitrogenous waste products , phosphates and sulfates are excluded .
• The clean blood is pumped back to the vein of the patient's arm.This whole process takes 3-4 hours.