Talk:Metal fume fever

Hoax tag
Zinc fever is mentioned here as an occupational hazard. Removing hoax tag. Dr Zak 15:00, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Deadly?
"Since Jim Wilson's death, after being exposure to zinc fumes (specifically zinc oxide), this is yet another in depth search on the subject of fume fever (exposure to zinc oxide) I have included the URL's for your reference so you can read the whole article and evaluate the dangers for yourself.

It would seem that fume fever is not something I want to deal with again. My first exposure was the result of my lack of knowledge, and by overheating galvanized material. I discribed my flu like symptoms to Jim Wilson over the phone and he immediately said it as fume fever. In his next breath I got "the lecture" on safety and knowing the dangers of the materials I was dealing with as a blacksmith.

Jim Wilson, to the best of my knowledge, did not die due to breathing zinc fumes (zinc oxide). Jim had COPD* and I have seen first hand his impaired breathing. It is my non-medical opinion that the exposure to zinc fumes further weakened an already impaired resporatory system and pneumonia set in. From the zinc exposure to the time of death was about 2 weeks. Although, as best I can tell, zinc did not cause his death, the zinc fumes and COPD were, most likely, the primary contributing factors. Yes it is splitting hairs, but as best I can tell, zinc fumes (inhalation of zinc oxide) causing death is not correct. I can find no articles to support a build up of zinc in the body (heavy metal poisioning) from inhaliation of zinc fumes (zinc oxide). If you can provide me with a URL, please do, as I would be most interested." -69.87.199.151 17:51, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I am interested to see that milk is regarded as a preventive cure for Fume Fever here, but I have not come across any validated material that describes this process. Perhaps you can supply me with this information please? Fumes enter the body through the airways and the lungs, whilst milk enters through the stomach. I do not know of any chemical in the milk that would inhibit the uptake of the fumes in the system. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christophertar (talk • contribs) 08:27, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know how bad the zinc is; my understanding was that it's unpleasant, but does not usually cause long-term problems. Other metals can be much more dangerous, though. I've heard that cadmium is particularly bad. 24.91.134.90 08:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

"Cow's Milk"
The usage of "Cow's Milk" seems awkward - did the author mean something other than bovine milk? (i.e. "milk of magnesia" isn't from any known animal.)--Test35965 (talk) 23:56, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Section that requires copy editing is plagiarized
The section marked with the copy edit tag appears to have been copy-pasted from http://www.hse.gov.uk/welding/illness.htm

There is relevant information that can be salvaged, but the majority of that section can probably be removed. --AstroEngiSci (talk) 02:25, 20 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I decided to go ahead and pull the trigger on that. --AstroEngiSci (talk) 02:52, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

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