Question

During dialysis, water and urea pass from the blood into the dialysis fluid. Proteins stay in the blood.

(a) Name the process by which water passes from the blood to the dialysis fluid.
(b) Describe the process you have named in (a).
(c) Explain why water passes out of blood but proteins do not.​

Answer 1

Healthy kidneys clean your blood and remove extra fluid in the form of urine. They also make substances that keep your body healthy. Dialysis replaces some of these functions when your kidneys no longer work. There are two different types of dialysis - hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. The following is about hemodialysis.