Why can’t a child grow taller despite good nutrition? Why can a child be short even if his parents are tall? Is height determined by genetics? What if both parents are short and the child is also short? According to Dr. Wang Wei, a pediatric endocrinologist at our dwarfism treatment clinic, modern medicine has proven in long-term clinical studies that many dwarfism is essentially a curable disease and must be taken seriously by parents! Nearly half of the parents interviewed attributed their children’s short stature to “late development” and “picky and partial eating”. They took measures such as increasing nutrition, strengthening physical exercise, taking multivitamin tablets and taking height-enhancing supplements, etc. Even more than 20% of parents did not take any measures to deal with their children’s short stature. Most parents do not think it is necessary to take their children to the hospital for tests to determine the cause of their short height. Especially for those children who have both parents who are short, they think that there is no way to grow taller because it is caused by genetic factors, but most of them can be treated. Parents of children with short stature should first go to a specialist hospital or specialist clinic for relevant professional examination, bone age check and pituitary growth hormone test if necessary, to find out the cause, then early symptomatic treatment, most children can completely achieve the ideal lifetime height. The first disease that affects height is short stature caused by growth hormone deficiency or insufficient secretion. If this type of disease is not treated early, the child’s final height as an adult may only be about 1.4 meters, i.e., dwarfism. The next diseases are precocious puberty, hypothyroidism, abnormal adrenocortical function, idiopathic dwarfism, as well as younger-than-fetal-age children and abnormal bone development, all of which can cause dwarfism. At the same time, according to the statistics of children seen nationwide, growth hormone deficiency accounted for 46.4% of the children seen and idiopathic dwarfism accounted for 27.0%. Idiopathic dwarfism is mainly caused by the disruption of growth hormone secretion, and these children can be effectively treated with drugs such as recombinant human growth hormone. Parents of children with dwarfism are reminded that dwarfism is not a terrible problem, as long as they pay attention to it and have regular medical checkups to detect and diagnose it early; they should not seek medical treatment blindly, but should go to a regular hospital specialist.