Process for removing toxins from bodily fluids using zirconium or titanium microporous compositions

A process for removing toxins from a mammalian body comprising:

• a) filling the peritoneal cavity with a sufficient volume of a first dialysate solution such that the solution contacts the peritoneum for a sufficient time to remove toxins from the blood;
• b) discharging the first dialysate solution from the peritoneal cavity and contacting the first dialysate solution with a microporous ion exchanger at ion exchange conditions, thereby adsorbing the toxins onto the ion exchanger;
• and
• c) collecting a purified dialysate solution;
• the microporous ion exchanger selected from the group consisting of zirconium metallate, titanium metallate and mixtures thereof, the metallates respectively having an empirical formula on an anhydrous basis of:
• ApMxZr1−xSinGeyOm (I)
• and
• ApMxTi1−xSinGeyOm (II)
• where A is an exchangeable cation selected from the group consisting of potassium ion, sodium ion, calcium ion, magnesium ion and mixtures thereof, M is at least one framework metal selected from the group consisting of hafnium (4+), tin (4+), niobium (5+), titanium (4+), cerium (4+), germanium (4+), praseodymium (4+), and terbium (4+), except that M is not titanium in formula (II), “p” has a value from about 1 to about 20, “x” has a value from zero to less than 1, “n” has a value from about 0 to about 12, “y” has a value from 0 to about 12, “m” has a value from about 3 to about 36 and 1≦n+y≦12.