Other irritants include plants (poison ivy, poison oak), UV light exposure, and perspiration (combined with metals). Irritant contact dermatitis develops when a substance destroys the skin cells it is in contact with before the skin can repair itself. These include detergents, soaps, cleaners, hair dyes, solvents, oils, paints, and many more. 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. There are some that require medication. 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. The other causes are airborne particles that get embedded in clothes and against the skin (under the collar, along the waistband). Harsh chemicals touching the hands or saturating the clothes cause eczema. Other workers get them from chemicals that become hazardous after being exposed to the sun. (These are most common in roof and agricultural workers. Venous eczema, on the other hand, occurs with people with impaired circulation, or those with varicose veins and edema. This is also common to people who are old, over 50 years old. Venous edema is characterized by redness, scaling, itching and darkening of the skin. Dematitis herpetiformis, another form of eczema, can cause itchiness and rashes on various parts of the body. Besides identifying the source of the rashes, parents can also help control the problem by keeping the skin of the baby well-moisturized. This helps prevent the dryness of the skin and eventually scaling and lesions. Be careful though when doing this because as mentioned before, some products that have chemical on them can actually cause the flare-ups.