Immune Clinic London

We test for and treat immune deficiencies in central London’s Integrated Immune Clinic (in our own clinic within the Hale Clinic). Dirk Budka and a team of highly qualified and successful conventional and complementary practitioners will help to increase your immunity and fight immune diseases.

Hepatitisvirus
courtesy CDC, Atlanta



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ON THIS PAGE:

LINKS
OUR APPROACH
OUR ADDRESS
WHAT ARE IMMUNE DISORDERS?
THE DEGENERATION OF OUR IMMUNE-SYSTEM
TESTS AND PRACTITIONERS

e-mail: info@immunecliniclondon.com

Dirk Budka's other websites:

for Nutrition London click here
for IBS Forum click here
for Bacteria Clinic click here
for Parasite Clinic click here
for Laser Clinic London click here
for MSML Laboratories click here
for the Stop Ready Meals Campaign click here

for Information about Histamine Intolerance click here

NEWS:

To read about Dirk Budka in MAIL ON SUNDAY (5th May 2009) and ELLE (JUNE 09) CLICK HERE
I made it very clear in the article that I hate the word "detox"... so calling me Dr. Detox is...well not really right, isn't it?

Dirk Budka's "Ready Meal Research" on Channel 5, Monday 18th August at 12.30, 17.00 and 19.00h (To see the programme go to http://news.five.tv/news.php?news=869)


OUR APPROACH

The integrated immune clinic London has an interdisciplinary approach to immune diseases, which includes psychology, neuroscience, immunology, pharmacology, physiology, psychiatry, behavioural medicine, infectious diseases, healing, etc.

When approaching immune disorders, we sometimes have to look at the interactions between psychological processes with the nervous and immune system. The immune system and the nervous system are linked in several ways. One well-known connection involves the adrenal glands. In response to stress messages from the brain, the adrenal glands release hormones into the blood. In addition to helping a person to respond to emergencies by mobilizing the body’s energy reserves, these “stress hormones” can stifle the protective effects of antibodies and lymphocytes.
Hormones and other chemicals known to convey messages among nerve cells have been found to “speak” to cells of the immune system. Indeed, some immune cells are able to manufacture typical nerve cell products, while some lymphokines can transmit information to the nervous system. What’s more, the brain may send messages directly down nerve cells to the immune system. Networks of nerve fibres have been found connecting to the lymphoid organs.

We are also highly qualified in microbial diseases/microbial detection:

BACTERIA
PARASITES
VIRUSES
FUNGI/YEASTS


OUR ADDRESS

Dirk Budka and associates practice in his own clinic and laboratory:

MSML - Microbiology And Special Medical Laboratory
within the
HALE CLINIC
7 Park Crescent
London W1B 1PF
0207-6310156


WHAT ARE IMMUNE DISORDERS?

There are overactive, underactive and inflammatory immune disorders and autoimmune diseases. It is not always possible to categorize them clearly into one group:

- an underactive immune disorder could be at the same time an inflammatory disease,
- what was formerly categorized as an overactive immune disorder is seen by some scientist as an underactive problem,
- there is growing evidence, that some autoimmune disorders are triggered/caused by bacteria and viruses.

Some examples of immune diseases:

overactive immune disorders include allergies, asthma, urticaria/hives, rhinitis, eczema;

underactive immune disorders include influenza, HIV, hepatitis C, hepatitis B, cancer and many infections which are caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites;

inflammatory immune disorders include fibromyalgia, celiac disease, ulcerative colitis;

autoimmune disorders include diabetes type 1, multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis.

Cytomegalovirus: an infection
of the lungs. Picture courtesy of CDC.




THE DEGENERATION OF OUR IMMUNE-SYSTEM

It is a sad fact that the immune strength declines with age. In recent years it has become clear that this immune-system decay, which contributes to age-related frailty, suffering and death is NOT caused by a wide range of immunological threats, but one type of virus, cytomegalovirus (CMV), is largely responsible for the entire problem.
One main reason the immune system fails with age appears to be that chronic infections by the likes of cytomegalovirus (CMV) cause too many of the immune cells to be specialised. Our immune system has evolved to get rid of acute infections in young bodies but it has not been selected to get rid of subclinical viral infections in old age. ...
The constant attempt to suppress slow-acting viruses such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) will throw the immune system out of balance ... CMV is a passive infection in many old people - and more and more of the immune system is devoted to fighting it.
- Your immune system is capped in its use of resources; it can only have a set number of T cells in operation at one time.
- A reserve of naive T cells is needed to effectively respond to new threats. These are untrained cells that will be educated and drafted to combat new intrusions.
- A small reserve of memory cells is needed to respond effectively to previously encountered threats - one reserve per threat.
- The more threats you have encountered, the more cells become devoted to memory; eventually you don't have enough naive T cells left to mount any sort of effective defence.
Activities of "latent viruses" from the Herpesviridae family (Epstein-Barr-Virus, EBV, the cause of Glandaluar Fever and also CMV, Herpes Zoster, Herpes Simplex, Shingles) can cause severe health problems, which are difficult to identify and diagnose. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Irritability, Migraines, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Depression... just to mention a few. What happens in your body is a decline of immune responses - the immune system is overworked -which can lead to imbalances in your microbial community. Result: more and more health problems.

Dirk Budka


TESTS AND PRACTITIONERS

TESTS AVAILABLE IN OUR OWN MSML - Microbiology and Special Medical Laboratory
for MSML Laboratories click here


ABOUT THE LEADING PRACTITIONERS WITHIN THE IMMUNE CLINIC LONDON

Dirk Budka, M.Sc, M.Sc, B.Sc, studied Environmental Science, Immune-Biology, Microbiology and Food Science. He practices in his own London clinic and runs a Gastro-Clinic, a Migraine Clinic, an Immunology Clinic and the Travel Clinic within the Hale Clinic, where he also runs his MSML - Microbiology and pecial Medical Laboratory. He believes that a "plausible, scientific diagnosis must come BEFORE any treatment."

Dirk Budka appeared recently on several CHANNEL 5 News editions with his research on READY MEALS, on BBC with Giles Coran's THE SUPERSIZERS and CBBC with GASTRO NUTS.

DIRK BUDKA is the scientific advisor of the BCNH (UK College of Nutrition and Health). The BSc Honours in Complementary Therapies (Nutritional Health) is run by the University of Greenwich in partnership with BCNH.


His main interests are:
- IBS, Crohn's Disease, SIBO, Ulcerative Colitis
- migraine and cluster headaches
- chronic fatigue
- bacterial products and their health implications
- food poisonings and long-term implications
- histamines, tyramines and other elusive/biogenic amines
- parasites and bacteria - prevention and treatment with natural products
- the 'Candida Myth'
- the dangers of Ready Meals
- food-borne pathogens: Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter jejuni, etc.
- H5N1 - is there a gastrointestinal portal for the bird flu virus?
- Blastocystis hominis - a dangerous or harmless parasite?
- Emerging and re-emerging pathogens