For most of my life I have lived with both instant response and delayed response food allergies. Some but not all of my food allergies are gluten, dairy, soy, corn, oats, and tree nuts. There are many other foods that I am allergic to, however those are my most severe. I have had numerous blood tests throughout my life to track these allergies, used an elimination based diet, rotated my diet to prevent new allergies, and altered my nutritional lifestyle completely, which has increase my health dramatically.



Recently I have been suffering from recurrent cellulitis infections, over the past 12 months I have had cellulitis 7 times. I have an allergy to sulfa medication so I have been taking either clindamycin or doxycycline to treat these infections. The medicine has always made me feel nauseous, feverish, and cause severe stomach pains right after taking the medicine. I recently looked into the contents of the pills and the second ingredient is corn starch, so it turns out that I am actually allergic to the medication.



I have been to my primary care physician and also an infectious disease specialist and they don’t seem to have any idea as to why I get these infections. The usual response I get is that it’s not normal to get such frequent infections, but I’m one of the people who must just be prone to them.



Until last summer, I had never had one of these infections, so something must have changed whether it is environmental or even related to my food allergies. I’m not too sure if you are someone that can help me, but I am interested to hear if you may be able to offer more insight than I have currently received from other doctors and specialists.