Shortness has become a social problem that can not be ignored Although short stature is not fatal, but affects the short children’s life, become a social problem that can not be ignored. 2007 Shanghai, a survey shows that 90% of the short children have low self-esteem, depression and other psychological disorders, adults do not have the ability to normal labor, face the heavy pressure of further education, employment, marriage and other aspects. Seven dwarfs and Snow White’s happy life can only happen in fairy tales, in real life, short stature brings too many problems. Wei Zeyang, vice president of the National Dwarf People’s Association, said that according to the results of the association’s internal survey, 72% of the adult dwarfs only have junior high school education and below, 68% of the dwarfs do not have a stable job, less than 15% of the dwarfs have a normal love affair and marriage, and 100% of the dwarfs have suffered from employment discrimination. In these important indicators to measure the quality of life, short people are much lower than normal people. Parents cognitive misunderstandings, child shortness should be early detection and early treatment For children’s growth and development and growth problems, society and parents have many misunderstandings. This is also one of the reasons for the low treatment rate of childhood dwarfism. 1, more than half of the parents do not know 0-3 years old need to observe children’s height; 2, more than 1/3 of the parents do not have the habit of scientific measurement of children’s height; 3, 30% of the parents mistakenly believe that as long as the nutrition to keep up with the height will be able to catch up; more than 70% of the parents of the lack of sufficient understanding of dwarfism, do not think that dwarfism is a disease, after the discovery of the child’s shortness, stick to the “late growth”, “twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-four, twenty-four, twenty-four”, “twenty-four, twenty-three, twenty-three”. ” “Twenty-three scurry a scurry” such a wrong concept blindly wait. At present, the clinical generally use the standard deviation method or percentile method to determine the short stature, that is, the child’s height is lower than the same age, the same sex, the same region, the same race of normal children’s height of 2 standard deviation or 3 percentile, can be diagnosed as dwarfism. Parents are advised to measure their children’s height every 3 months. If they always rank in the top three in class or are 5-10 centimeters shorter than children of the same age, parents should pay attention. Research has shown that the younger the child is, the more active the proliferation and differentiation of the cartilage layer of the epiphysis, the greater the potential and time space for bone growth in children, the more sensitive the response to treatment, and the better the growth effect. Moreover, the younger and lighter the child is, the smaller the dose of growth hormone medication used and the less it costs. This requires parents to pay close attention to the child’s growth status, timely detection of the child’s slow growth signals: 1, the child’s growth rate before the age of 3 is less than 7 cm / year; 2, 3 years old to puberty is less than 5 cm / year; 3, puberty is less than 6 cm / year; to puberty, the bone development is mature, epiphyseal epiphyseal closure, the height of the child is no longer growing, and then any method can not make the child to continue to grow taller. Because of missing the best time to treat their children, many parents can only regret for the rest of their lives. It is worth noting that if your child’s growth rate is higher than normal, you should also be wary of precocious puberty.