What is sarcoidosis

summary

The pathogenesis of sarcoidosis is unknown, after the disease will involve other organs, in the process of treatment, we need to pay attention to the complications. Now let's see what sarcoidosis is.

What is sarcoidosis

First of all: sarcoidosis is a non caseous necrotizing epithelial granuloma inflammatory disease with unknown etiology. It mainly invades the lung parenchyma and involves multiple organs of the whole body, such as lymph nodes, skin, joints, liver, kidney and heart. The clinical course is more insidious. The patient may die suddenly due to complete atrioventricular block and (or) congestive heart failure, even leading to sudden death He had symptoms.

Secondly: sarcoidosis is a systemic disease, in addition to the heart, other organs, especially the lung, lymph nodes, skin can be affected. There may be fever, discomfort, anorexia, weight loss, dry cough, wheezing, dyspnea, spotted or papular rash and joint pain.

Finally: because most patients can relieve themselves, stable and asymptomatic patients do not need treatment. Hormone therapy can be used for patients with stage II and III symptoms and extrathoracic sarcoidosis, such as eye sarcoidosis, sarcoidosis invasion of nervous system, skin and myocardial involvement, continuous increase of blood calcium and urine calcium, and obvious increase of SACE level. The use of drugs must be completed under the guidance of doctors to avoid side effects caused by blind medication.

matters needing attention

Should eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, into low-fat, low cholesterol food, such as: mushrooms, fungus, celery, bean sprouts, kelp, lotus root, fish, rabbit meat, chicken, fresh beans, etc. You can eat more legume products, choose to use vegetable oil when cooking, and avoid using animal oil.