Usually, irritants are chemicals that your skin reacts to like strong soaps and detergents, paints, shampoo. If you notice that your skin gets rashes when you use a particular item, refrain from using that immediately. Don t let your irritation to become eczema. Another technique to combating eczema is the use of moisturizer. Hydrating the skin would need taking short daily baths in warm (not hot) water, using mild or non-irritating soap. This daily bathing hydrates the skin, which can reduce flare-ups. For severe cases, patients should even take 3 short baths daily. After some initial discomforts (open skin sores are painful when touched by water), patients tend to get relief. During bedtime, you can give your child antihistamine to help control the itching so that they can get enough rest at night. You must not allow them to wear clothes that are made from wool and other materials that may cause excessive body heat and sweating. When the flares seem out of hand, you can also opt to use wet or wet to dry dressings. One example perhaps is the atopic eczema, which is a very common allergic reaction; the discoid eczema, which often lead to dry rash and lesions; and the venous eczema, which often results to scaling, redness and darkening of the skin because of the scars. For these forms of eczema, more aggressive treatment is usually used. This problem is an itch that when scratched, it will develop into rash. The solution to the problem is to make sure that the sufferer won t scratch or at least, avoid scratching the affected parts. It comes in severe forms when the condition is developed during infancy. Children who have this problem may also develop other types of allergic diseases such as asthma and allergic rhinitis. Females are slightly prone to the disease than males. It also tends to be more common in higher social classes and in families that are smaller in size. Diagnosis Doctors usually look for a rash, and ask for the medical history of the patient and those of close relatives. The search is the presence of a history of atopic dermatitis, asthma or hay fever from everyone.