What is SAR-COI-DOSIS and What Can I Do to Help? Sarcoidosis (pronounced SAR-COY-DOE-SIS) is an inflammatory disease that can affect almost any organ in the body. It causes heightened immunity, which means that a person’s immune system, which normally protects the body from infection and disease, overreacts, resulting in damage to the body’s own tissues. The classic feature of sarcoidosis is the formation of granulomas, microscopic clumps of inflammatory cells that group together (and look like granules, hence the name). When too many of these clumps form in an organ they can interfere with how that organ functions. In people in the United States, sarcoidosis most commonly targets the lungs and lymph nodes, but the disease can and usually does affect others organs, too, including (but not limited to) the skin, eyes, liver, salivary glands, sinuses, kidneys, heart, the muscles and bones, and the brain and nervous system. APRIL IS NATIONAL SARCOIDOSIS AWARENESS MONTH Join us with the search for a cure and "Sarcoidosis Awareness" by Educating, Advocating or Giving. You can do that in 3 different ways:
Fund Awareness ORDER OUR T-SHIRTS (Somebody Bigger, SARCOID OUCHES, ECO LOVE
Get Your Purple AHA Ribbon (Awareness HOPE Advocacy) Give, Seed, Sow
Join our Silver Spring SARC LIFE FOCUS GROUP "CHAMPS4LIFE" Participate in focus meetings. CLICK HERE to Listen to My Story "SARCOIDOSIS and ME"
If you would like to help us with sarcoidosis awareness, research and hope for a cure you can do that in many ways such as starting, joining or supporting a sarcoidosis group, organization, foundation or fund. You can also five to organizations such as FSR or Life and Breath or you can donate any amount here toward the NEW BREATH FOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS SURVIVORS. Your dollars will be used to host breakfast Tea's, Lunch and Learns, Awareness Events, Marketing Campaigns and Outreach Programs. No donation is too small or too large!
Fund Awareness ORDER OUR T-SHIRTS (Somebody Bigger, SARCOID OUCHES, ECO LOVE
Get Your Purple AHA Ribbon (Awareness HOPE Advocacy) Give, Seed, Sow
Join our Silver Spring SARC LIFE FOCUS GROUP "CHAMPS4LIFE" Participate in focus meetings. CLICK HERE to Listen to My Story "SARCOIDOSIS and ME"
If you would like to help us with sarcoidosis awareness, research and hope for a cure you can do that in many ways such as starting, joining or supporting a sarcoidosis group, organization, foundation or fund. You can also five to organizations such as FSR or Life and Breath or you can donate any amount here toward the NEW BREATH FOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS SURVIVORS. Your dollars will be used to host breakfast Tea's, Lunch and Learns, Awareness Events, Marketing Campaigns and Outreach Programs. No donation is too small or too large!
