Bacteria Clinic

Bacteria Clinic in London for Tests and Integrated Treatment of Gastrointestinal, Respiratory, Skin, Urinary, Soft Tissue and Disseminated Infections

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READY MEAL RESEARCH CHANNEL 5
WHAT WE OFFER
INTRODUCTION TO BACTERIAL DISEASES
NEW LASER APPROACH
LINKS
LIST OF BACTERIA


to go to the READY MEALS website visit STOP READY MEALS CLICK HERE
to go to Dirk Budka's IBS website visit IBS FORUM CLICK HERE


Dirk Budka's "Ready Meal Research" on Channel 5, Monday 18th August at 12.30, 17.00 and 19.00h

Dirk Budka and his associates analysed for Channel 5 six different "Ready Meals" from four major UK supermarkets. Some might find the outcome shocking - we believe it is not unexpected: high levels of Bacteria and very high levels of Histamines. Details and comments regarding ready meals and this specific studies will be on this website from Tuesday, 19th August.
Here is a little extract:
The level for histamines in fish (there is NO rule/law for the amount of histamines in meat and other foods) is 200mg/kg. This a shocking level, because good quality fish contain less than 10 mg/kg histamine, a level of 30 mg/kg indicates already significant deteriation. We found levels of 185mg/kg and 450(!)mg/kg. How long will authorities and the Food Standard Agency (FSA) tolerate these limits? The incidents of reactions are on the increase, because approx. 5-10 % of the population suffer from histamine intolerance.


CHANNEL 5, 18-08-2008: THE TRUTH ABOUT READY MEALS

We eat millions of them every year but today a Five News investigation into ready meals has found that many contain bacteria which could make you ill.

We found they have ingredients linked to food poisoning, bowel pain, asthma and even anaphylactic shock.

Our reporter Catherine Jones has been researching the truth about our foods. Read her blog on just what she found as she put ready meals under the microscope.

"This weekend I fed my one year old daughter some mackerel. Within seconds of the first mouthful she was crying as her mouth and cheek suddenly erupted in a nasty rash. I guessed she was having an allergic reaction to histamines in the fish and I quickly gave her some anti-histamine syrup.

It was somewhat ironic I got to see this reaction to histamine first hand, because I'd just received the results of tests that Five News had commissioned on six ready meals. And the most worrying result that the analysis revealed was a supermarket-bought Fisherman's Pie that contained extremely high levels of histamines: easily enough to cause a reaction exactly like my daughter's, or potentially one even worse in someone more intolerant.

There's a danger of food poisoning from many foods, as my experience with the mackerel demonstrates. Nevertheless, our test results on ready meals made sobering reading. As well as the high levels of histamines, in a meatball and mash dish we found Listeria (the bug that can cause miscarriage in pregnant women), and both the rice dishes we tested contained a bacteria I'd never even heard of, called Bacillus Cereus.

Now, store these meals correctly in the fridge, re-heat them properly and eat them before the use-by date, and if you've got a normal immune system, the bugs should present no problem.

But how many of us do that? I have to confess I make most ready meals last for a dinner and a lunch the following day. (And it's often my children who get the leftovers). Not only that, once the stuff's languished in my fridge for a bit, I'll throw away the meat bit, but still recycle the rice, presuming that it won't "go off" like meat does.

How wrong I am. The rice bug, Bacillus Cereus, continues to multiply and produce spores even in the fridge, and the spores aren't destroyed by cooking. That's why you should never re-heat rice more than once and never store it at room temperature. (And remember a ready meal rice dish has already been cooked once at the factory, so you must eat it the first time you heat it at home and then throw out the rest.)

Similarly, Listeria is often found in raw meat but cooking kills it. So cook the meatballs thoroughly and you'd be safe, but if you cut corners and grab it out of the microwave as soon as it looks hot enough, you may not have destroyed all the bacteria.

I used to take those ready meal instructions with a pinch of salt, thinking the manufacturers were probably being over-cautious to cover themselves. But from now on, knowing what may be lurking in there that could make me ill, I'll be following those guidelines to the letter."

COMMENT: They said at the end of the programme: "If you store and reheat the ready meals properly, it should be ok" ... Very funny! Bacillus cereus, spore forming bacteria, will survive the reheating process. And histamines? Well, just imagine that the food is "off". Do you believe ity will be less "off" if you reheat it?
(More to follow)


WHAT WE OFFER
INTRODUCTION TO BACTERIAL DISEASES
NEW LASER APPROACH
LINKS
LIST OF BACTERIA

OUR ADDRESS:

Dirk Budka & Associates
c/o Hale Clinic
7 Park Crescent
London W1B 1PF

and
MSML Laboratory
Dirk Budka
c/o Hale Clinic
7 Park Crescent
London W1B 1PF



WHAT WE OFFER

The Bacteria Clinic London offers tests and treatments/support for mainly gastrointestinal, (but also urinal/gynaecological, respiratory, skin, and disseminated) diseases. The gastro-tests/treatments include IBS-related symptoms, SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), Food Poisoning, Post Food Poisoning Syndrome (PFPS), Histamine Intolerance and Scombroid Poisoning and Biogenic Amine Intolerances.

Our own lab (MSML = Microbiology And Special Medical Laboratory) analyses skin-scratch, urine, stool, blood and saliva samples as well as vaginal and rectal swabs. We use diagnostic microbiology and immunology tools like the PCR (polymerase chain reaction), which is widely used in biology research. A typical PCR procedure is designed to amplify DNA about 1 billion-fold. This allows the visualization of a single DNA molecule obtained from a single fungus or bacteria or parasite cell. PCR is also extremely useful for identifying viral and intracellular infections.

(Read about Dirk Budka's new MICROBIOME DIET. to go to Nutrition London CLICK HERE)


INTRODUCTION TO BACTERIAL DISEASES

“The world will face new deadly threats within the next decade.” (WHO, World Health Organization). New diseases are emerging and spreading more quickly than at any time in history.
Scientists are more and more struggling to keep up, as new pathogens emerge or old ones re-occur … and these pathogens become more and more drug resistant.
Re-emerging are Mycobacterium (causing tuberculosis) and Yersinia pestis (causing the bubonic plague), a bacteria which killed nearly half of Europe’s population in the years after 1348.

Example of drug resistance:
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis,
- The development of resistance to penicillin in Neisseria gonorrhoea
- The methicillin-resistant Styaphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- Campylobacter jejuni, a bacteria that developed drug resistance as a result of using antibiotics in animal feeds for growth promoting, is a major threat to poultry eaters
- the vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

But bacteria not only develop drug resistance, but also to heat, cold and other treatments used by the food industry. Food-borne pathogens like Salmonella, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, Bacillus cereus and many more are on the rise.

The foundation PREVENTION – EARLY DIAGNOSIS – EFFECTIVE TREATMENT is completely shaken/unsettled.

The 5 factors in infectious diseases:

- ECOLOGICAL CHANGES – agriculture, water ecosystems, de/re-forestation, flood, drought, climate change
- HUMAN BEHAVIOUR – population growth, migration, war, travel, urban decay, sexual behaviour
- TECHNOLOGY and INDUSTRY – globalisation of food supplies, food processing, transplantation, immunosuppressive drugs, widespread use of antibiotics
- MICROBIAL ADAPTION and CHANGES - Changes in microbial populations can lead to the evolution of new pathogens, development of new virulent strains in old pathogens, development of antibiotic resistance that might make a disease more difficult to treat, or to changes in the ability to survive in adverse environmental conditions.
- BREAKDOWN IN PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES (reduction in prevention programmes, inadequate sanitation, closing down of hospitals, ready meals in hospitals, etc.)

Bacterial infectious diseases:

Anthrax – Bacterial Meningitis – Botulism – Brucellosis – Campylobacteriosis – Cat Scratch Disease – Cholera – Diphtheria – Epidemic Typhus – Gonorrhea – Impetigo– Legionellosis – Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) – Leptospirosis – Listeriosis – Lyme disease – Melioidosis – Rheumatic Fever;MRSA infection – Nocardiosis – Pertussis (Whooping Cough) – Plague – Pneumococcal pneumonia – Psittacosis – Q fever – Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) – Salmonellosis – Scarlet Fever – Shigellosis – Syphilis – Tetanus – Trachoma – Tuberculosis – Tularemia – Typhoid Fever – Typhus– Urinary Tract Infections

NEW LASER APPROACH

Laser Blood Irradiation Therapy/Transdermal Systemic Laser Therapy (TDSLT)

…heals and increases functioning efficacy of the vascular, immune and respiratory system

… normalisation of parameters of hormonal, immune, reproductive systems

...antitoxic, bio-stimulative, immuno-corrective, anti-allergic, antibacterial, antiviral, analgetic, anti-inflammatory

…boosts the cellular part of your immunity, decrease concentrations of microbes in the abdomen, activate microcirculation

…increase energy and normalise tissue metabolism, activate ATP–synthesis and energy formation in cells, increase oxidation of energy-carrying molecules

… unblocking of capillaries, positive pre- and post-surgical operations effects

…regeneration and reparation of cells, incl. inner genital organs

To read more about Transdermal Systemic Laser Therapy on AGELESS TECHNOLOGIES to read about HISTAMINE INTOLERANCE and on REGENERATIVE HEALTH CLINIC CLICK HERE

After 24 hours, this inoculated XLD agar culture plate cultivated colonial growth of Gram-negative, rod-shaped and facultatively anaerobic Salmonella sp. bacteria. Picture courtesy CDC, Atlanta


We tend to think that the horrors of destroying and/or killing bacterial diseases belong into the past. Plague, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Cholera … diseases which killed or disabled huge portions of the world population just died down! The bacteria, that causes these diseases are still there and minor outbreaks (at least ‘minor’ for now) happen.


LINKS


to go to Nutrition London CLICK HERE
visit MSML Laboratories London
visit the Parasite Clinic London CLICK HERE
visit STOP READY MEALS CLICK HERE
visit IBS FORUM CLICK HERE
visit the Laser Clinic London
to go to the Immune Clinic London.com CLICK HERE
to read about HISTAMINE INTOLERANCE


LIST OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS
BACTERIA
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
Actinomadura madurae
Actinomadura pelletieri
Actinomyces gerencseriae
Actinomyces israelii
Actinomyces pyogenes
Actinomyces spp
Alcaligenes spp
Arcanobacterium haemolyticum
(Corynebacterium haemolyticum)
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus cereus
Bacteroides fragilis
Bacteroides spp
Bartonella bacilliformis
Bartonella quintana (Rochalimaea quintana)
Bartonella spp (Rochalimaea spp)
Bordetella bronchiseptica
Bordetella parapertussis
Bordetella pertussis
Borrelia burgdorferi
Borrelia duttonii
Borrelia recurrentis
Borrelia spp
Brucella abortus
Brucella canis
Brucella melitensis
Brucella suis
Burkholderia cepacia
Burkholderia mallei (Pseudomonas mallei)
Burkholderia pseudomallei
(Pseudomonas pseudomallei)
Campylobacter fetus
Campylobacter jejuni
Campylobacter spp
Cardiobacterium hominis
Chlamydia pneumoniae
Chlamydia psittaci (non avian strains)
Chlamydia psittaci (avian strains)
Chlamydia trachomatis
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium difficile
Clostridium perfringens
Clostridium tetan
Clostridium spp
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Corynebacterium minutissimum
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
Corynebacterium spp
Coxiella burnetii
Edwardsiella tarda
Ehrlichia sennetsu (Rickettsia sennetsu)
Ehrlichia spp
Eikenella corrodens
Enterobacter aerogenes/cloacae
Enterobacter spp
Enterococcus spp
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
Escherichia coli (with the exception of
non-pathogenic strains)
Escherichia coli, verocytotoxigenic strains
(eg O157:H7 or O103)
Flavobacterium meningosepticum
Fluoribacter bozemanae (formerly Legionella)
Francisella tularensis (Type A)
Francisella tularensis (Type B)
Fusobacterium necrophorum
Fusobacterium spp
Gardnerella vaginalis
Haemophilus ducreyi
Haemophilus influenzae
Haemophilus spp
Helicobacter pylori
Klebsiella oxytoca
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Klebsiella spp
Legionella pneumophila
Legionella spp
Leptospira interrogans (all serovars)
Listeria ivanovii
Listeria monocytogenes
Moraxella catarrhalis
Morganella morganii
Mycobacterium africanum
Mycobacterium avium/intracellulare
Mycobacterium bovis (BCG strain)
Mycobacterium bovis
Mycobacterium chelonae
Mycobacterium fortuitum
Mycobacterium kansasii
Mycobacterium leprae
Mycobacterium malmoense
Mycobacterium marinum
Mycobacterium microti
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis
Mycobacterium scrofulaceum
Mycobacterium simiae
Mycobacterium szulgai
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mycobacterium ulcerans
Mycobacterium xenopi
Mycoplasma caviae
Mycoplasma hominis
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Neisseria meningitidis
Nocardia asteroides
Nocardia brasiliensis
Nocardia farcinica
Nocardia nova
Nocardia otitidiscaviarum
Pasteurella multocida
Pasteurella spp
Peptostreptococcus anaerobius
Peptostreptococcus spp
Plesiomonas shigelloides
Porphyromonas spp
Prevotella spp
Proteus mirabilis
Proteus penneri
Proteus vulgaris
Providencia alcalifaciens
Providencia rettgeri
Providencia spp
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas mallei
- see Burkholderia mallei
Pseudomonas pseudomallei
- see Burkholderia pseudomallei
Rhodococcus equi
Rickettsia akari
Rickettsia canada
Rickettsia conorii
Rickettsia montana
Rickettsia prowazekii
Rickettsia rickettsii
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi
Rickettsia sennetsu
- see Ehrlichia sennetsu
Rickettsia typhi (Rickettsia mooseri)
Rickettsia spp
Rochalimaea quintana
- see Bartonella quintana
Rochalimaea spp
Salmonella arizonae
Salmonella enteritidis
Salmonella (other serovars)
Salmonella paratyphi A,B,C
Salmonella typhi
Salmonella typhimurium
Serpulina spp
Shigella boydii
Shigella dysenteriae (Type 1)
Shigella dysenteriae (other than Type 1)
Shigella flexneri
Shigella sonnei
Staphylococcus aureus
Streptobacillus moniliformis
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Streptococcus pyogenes
Streptococcus suis
Streptococcus spp
Treponema carateum
Treponema pallidum
Treponema pertenue
Treponema spp
Ureaplasma urealyticum
Vibrio cholerae (including El Tor)
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Vibrio spp
Yersinia enterocolitica
Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Yersinia spp