Welding Galvanized Steel Fume Fever. It primarily involves exposure to such chemicals as aluminum oxide zinc oxide or magnesium oxide. Systemic poisoning can result from inhaling or swallowing substances contained in welding fume such as fluorides hexavalent chromium lead barium and cadmium.
Inhalation of certain freshly formed metal oxides produced from welding process can cause MFF as. Most welders will at some point in their career perform a weld on galvanized steel and encounter galvanize poisoning or metal fume fever Galvanize poisoning is a short-term reaction to overexposure of zinc oxide 1. Inhaling many freshly formed metallic oxides such as those of zinc cadmium copper etc may lead to acute influenza-like illness termed metal fume fever.
Since galvanized steel is more and more common.
I take your point in that prevention is better than cure and you do get a better weld. Systemic poisoning can result from inhaling or swallowing substances contained in welding fume such as fluorides hexavalent chromium lead barium and cadmium. With the exception of exposure to cadmium fume serious complications are rare. The fumes from welding cutting or brazing on galvanized metal.