Hematological signs like absolute eosinophil counts,
total IgE and ESR in rice mill workers and normal controls
are presented in Table 6. The rice mill workers have significantly
higher AEC (369 ± 14.24), total IgE
(137 ± 21.11) and ESR (18 ± 0.74) than the control group
AEC (189 ± 17.37), total IgE (48 ± 14.62) and ESR
(7 ± 0.62). Eosinophilia was observed in (26.7 %) 32 rice
mill workers, whereas only 2 (4 %) controls were identified
with having eosinophilia.