Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory condition that most commonly affects the lungs, but can impact many different parts of the body.
And it is a type of inflammation called granulomatous inflammation that in some cases can be appropriate and can help protect us from things like infection or foreign bodies,
But in the case of sarcoidosis, we see that same type of inflammation,
or very similar, is present for no appropriate reason, and yet can go on to negatively impact the lungs and other areas throughout the body.
Sarcoidosis can impact people in different ways and causes different symptoms.
And most commonly what we see is it affect the lungs, causing things like shortness of breath, cough, sometimes discomfort in the chest,
or a limitation to activity that someone could previously do without issue.
Although the lungs are the most commonly affected organ, it can go on to impact different parts of the body and cause things like rash, pain or redness of the eyes,
sometimes a fast heartbeat or fluttering in the chest,
numbness, tingling of the hands or feet, swelling of the joints or pain in the joints.
Sarcoidosis can be treated in different ways depending on someone's symptoms and the results of several tests that they often go through following an initial diagnosis.
In some cases, we don't need to treat sarcoidosis,
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In other cases, with more mild symptoms, those can be controlled with things like an inhaler or a topical treatment to treat rashes. Other individuals
will need more systemic treatment to target the inflammation of sarcoidosis.
And that can be in the form of pills, injections under the skin or even coming in for an infusion.
Sarcoidosis is a manageable condition, but it can affect people in many different ways.
And for that reason, it's important to work with a provider
