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Try bathing it with a tea-tree solution. It is naturally antiseptic and if the irritation is mild but has become habituated over a few days, the smell might put her off biting for a little while.
Both Pilau and Dante periodically get these hotspots. Most of the time they go, eventually, but they can look really nasty for quite a while. Every so often it gets bad enough that we end up at the vets. Usually to be told we're doing the right thing in bathing it with either tea-tree or salt water, and are charged £15 for the privelege :P
The problem is that there have been one or two occasions when it hasn't been 'the usual'. One time Pilau turned out to have fox mange mite infestation, but that got progressively worse and the irritations seemed to be moving up the legs and into other parts of the body.
A couple of things to watch out for are the possibility that there is an infection, either as the original source of the irritation or as a result of the continued damage to the area from biting; and also the possibility that it is a referred pain response. Dante in particular seems to get these hotspots when he is in pain from his joints, and they get better as when his pain is under control.
Pilau on the other hand seems mainly to get hotspots during particular seasons and I've considered he may have some kind of sensitivity to some of the local flora.
Sorry if that worried you unduly. Most of the time these things pass along quietly and all the worry they've incurred proves to have been unnecessary :P
If you're going to bathe the area in tea tree, don;t over do it. Once or twice a day for a few days and see how it goes. Keep an eye on it, and be ready to stop bathing if it seems to get worse: some skin stuff needs to be bathed, some needs to be left to dry out. Difficult to know which sometimes.
If you can get a bandage to stay on it might help prevent a little of the biting. Again though, don't overdo it, just a few hours at a time to enforce a break.
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