An Enhanced Sanitary Pad has various optional devices associated therewith in order to ameliorate painful conditions and also signal the amount of liquids absorbed therein. In this regard, an image is imprinted on one or more layers of a absorbent material within a sanitary pad. The image is affected by liquids such as menstrual flow to produce observable changes that signal a user to change the pad. The observable changes in the image include but are not limited to fading, color changing, glowing and or shining. Optionally, cooling crystals are embedded within an absorbent layer attached to a plastic backing material. Another option has a cooling strip associated with the pad at either end thereof, on the longitudinal sides of the pad or in appropriate locations thereabouts. Another teaching has an independent pleated protrusion having a peel strip attached thereto.
