Recommendation of diet to jaundice patient on the basis of nutrients using AHP and fuzzy AHP technique

Abstract

Jaundice is a disease caused due to alarmingly high level of bilirubin. This prevails in places with low level of sanitation and inability to access nutrient enriched diet. In the Indian perspective, jaundice is a severe menace affecting many people including infants, ladies and men. To cure jaundice, the bilirubin levels need to be lowered which can be done by a proper diet incorporating multiple critical nutrients in right proportion along with medication. This makes it an incredibly complex process. The proposed paper recommends diet to jaundice patient by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). This technique for diet recommendation has not been used before and it provides a new perspective which is different from conventional techniques. In AHP, critically important nutrients are taken as factors and alternative diet plans are evaluated on the basis of these factors in order to select the best option. The result is the diet plan which includes meals to be consumed by a jaundice patient at breakfast, lunch and dinner. The results obtained by AHP are further validated using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP). FAHP provided the same results as obtained from AHP.