Kava makes me thirsty, it could be a gift it doesn't for you. Drink water before a shell?
@Catlady , have you ever had a recipe with more root and less water? If that doesn't make you thirsty we can enter the kava drinking championship right away!
In your next photo, skin looks a little better. My skin is completely healed up, it's been chilly lately so I haven't sweat much. A curious idea since you may have cats (screenname - I have four cats), did you check the beddings to be sure they are free from: cat fur, sand, chemicals? The original photo appears too populated in red dots to be the average bug bite so I decided maybe it could be coming from some topical irritation such as, too much fur in that area, coarse particles like sand, or poorly rinsed detergent or sterilizer? Make sure there is no leftover sodium hydroxide(some detergents such as Tide carry this ingredient) or sodium metasilicate(charlies natural laundry soap), QAC's(odoban), or sulfates(dishsoap) on beddings, those chems are particularly irritating to skin. I like to wash laundry with plenty of soap and rinse twice, or, rinse until the water looks and smells clean.
by the way, stick around please, a dermotology nurse is of very high value around here!