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Does anyone know what you do when you have sarcoidosis,please, need help?


Does anyone know what you do when you have sarcoidosis,please, need help?

Sarcoidosis involves inflammation that produces tiny lumps of cells in various organs in your body. The lumps are called granulomas (gran"u-lo'mahs) because they look like grains of sugar or sand. They are very small and can be seen only with a microscope. These tiny granulomas can grow and clump together, making many large and small groups of lumps. If many granulomas form in an organ, they can affect how the organ works. This can cause symptoms of sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis can occur in almost any part of your body, although it usually affects some organs more than others. It usually starts in one of two places:
Lungs
Lymph nodes, especially the lymph nodes in your chest cavity.
Sarcoidosis also often affects your:
Skin,Eyes,Liver.
Less often, sarcoidosis affects your:
Spleen,Brain,Nerves,Heart,Tear glands,Salivary glands and
Bones and joints.
Sarcoidosis almost always occurs in more than one organ at a time.
Sarcoidosis is not a form of cancer.
There is no known way to prevent sarcoidosis.
Sarcoidosis was once thought to be an uncommon condition. It's now known to affect tens of thousands of people throughout the United States. Because many people who have sarcoidosis have no symptoms, it's hard to know how many people have the condition.
The goals of treatment are to:

Improve how the organs affected by sarcoidosis work
Relieve symptoms
Shrink the granulomas.
Treatment may shrink the granulomas and even cause them to disappear, but this may take many months. If scars have formed, treatment may not help, and you may have ongoing symptoms.
Your treatment depends on:
What symptoms you have
How severe your symptoms are.
Whether any of your vital organs (e.g., your lungs, eyes, heart, or brain) are affected
How the organ is affected.
Some organs must be treated, regardless of your symptoms. Others may not need to be treated. Usually, if you don't have symptoms, you don't need treatment, and you probably will recover in time.
The main treatment for sarcoidosis is prednisone. Prednisone is a corticosteroid, or anti-inflammatory drug. Sometimes it is used with other drugs. Sometimes other corticosteroids are used.

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