The most frequent causes are the contact with acids, alkaline materials as the soaps and the detergents, dissolvers and other chemists. The reaction usually looks alike to a burn.

The skin of the hands, especially the palms and the interdigital spaces, they usually appear with:

• Reddening or inflammation of the skin in the exposed area.
• Injuries that can be of any type: reddening, eruption, pápulas, vesicles and blisters in addition to exudado and crusts formation, with loss of the normal texture of the skin appearing like living or increased meat.
• Itch or intense heat of the skin in exposed areas.
• Increase of the sensibility of the skin in the exposed area.

The case history must discard the presence of other dermatitis, principally of the allergic dermatititis caused by habitual allergens.

It is possible to realize a test of the patch that is realized by the most common causative allergens of this allergic illness (Nickel, chromium, perfumes, cosmetics, black colourings, gums, colophony, and other professional products related to the profession of the patient).

The presence of habitual contacts with primary, acidic irritants, alkaline materials like the soaps, detergents, dissolvers and other chemists, as well as the frequent wash of the hands is frequent that appears in an examination of the clinical record in the dermatitis of the housewife.

The initial treatment consists of offering cosmetic measurements to recover the acidic cloak of the skin and a treatment antinflamatorio with creams of short-term cortisone.
To avoid the primary irritants, and the wash of the short-term hands.