What are the misconceptions that parents should avoid after discovering that their child is short?

       1. Blindly listen to advertised height-enhancing products: Regardless of the therapeutic mechanism and the cost, go ahead and try them out. Most of the products advertised have the undesirable effect of causing premature epiphyseal closure. As a result, when the effect is not good when the party to find a specialist consultation, at this time may have lost the best time for treatment.

2, blindly consult: listening to the propaganda of the height increase clinics in informal hospitals, resulting in misdiagnosis or wrong medication. Delay the growth of the child. Even adverse consequences, at this time both wasted time and spent a lot of money, regret is too late.

3, wait: some parents think: “children have early growth, late growth, 23 years old still leap a leap”, the child is short is not anxious, when found that the child really does not grow, and then go to the hospital is too late. The child’s epiphysis may have already closed, losing the time to grow taller.