Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
The kidneys filter and purify the blood, throwing out the impurities through the urine.
If the kidneys become diseased and cease functioning, the blood gets poisoned and the patient dies.
The only way to deal with kidney failure is to transplant a healthy kidney obtained from a living or just dead person — or to remove the impurities from the blood artificially.
The technique for removing waste products from the blood is called dialysis.
In dialysis, blood from an artery in the arm (or leg) is drawn into a dialysis machine and the purified blood is fed into a vein.
The person requiring dialysis has to undergo an 8–hour session connected to the dialysis machine every two or three days.
It is an exhausting and costly process.
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Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.