Can shortness be treated with medication or surgery? It has been mentioned repeatedly that the causes of dwarfism are very complex. Therefore, the key to the diagnosis and treatment of dwarfism is to identify the cause of dwarfism. If it is due to non-disease shortness, such as family hereditary shortness and physical developmental delay, etc., their common characteristics are: short at birth, but after birth the growth rate is normal, the height is always lower than normal. The best way to promote the growth of such children is to enhance nutrition, strengthen exercise, ensure sleep and prevent diseases. Adequate nutrition is an important material basis for growth, protein, calcium, zinc and other elements are important cellular components of the human body; longitudinal movement, especially long-term exercise can promote the body’s own secretion of more growth hormone, help to grow taller; adequate sleep can also make the growth hormone secretion more. Therefore, it is important not to abuse drugs to increase the height of children with short stature. In fact, due to today’s society in many choices have a certain standard for the height of the body, so a variety of drugs or equipment to increase the height of the spring, such as medicinal growth hormone, calcium, zinc, increase the height of the shoe pads, increase the height of the instrument and so on, endless. Many parents believe that their children are relatively short, so they do not hesitate to spend a lot of money to invest in their children’s height. In fact, the selection of these drugs or equipment to increase the choice of much, parents once into the wrong area, pulling the seedling to help grow, the child’s health is very unfavorable. If the use of unnecessary surgical treatment, may even lead to leave serious sequelae, it is too late to regret. What are the common commercial pitfalls of height enhancement? In today’s fear of short age, everyone for the child’s height is extremely important, open the TV, height increase product advertisements everywhere, and in the network by Google search on the height of this item there are more than 100,000 related content, the whole society for the attention of the height of this can be seen. However, these advertisements or some height increase business operations, and even some of the so-called height increase hospital advertisements often imply commercial traps. For example, in order to exaggerate their so-called efficacy or let more children to buy goods, manufacturers set their own height standards or purposefully adjusted scale, and then invited “celebrities”, the use of celebrity effect, through fictional episodes or stories to promote their products, or find a child to publicize, in fact, a lot of advertisements in the so-called beneficiaries often Are manufacturers to spend a lot of money to the child; the other ads in the dramatic height effect, such as a young man in his twenties with a commodity, in just two or three months after the height of a dozen centimeters, in fact, this is just the result of computer-generated stunts. In addition to the use of growth of some of the laws of nature to cleverly “move the wood”, such as human height is not fixed, every day there is a certain pattern of change, in the morning than the afternoon 1-2 centimeters higher than the treatment before the afternoon measurement, and after the treatment in the morning measurement of height, so that the fluctuations in the height of its own manufacturers widely publicized as the “Great efficacy”, in addition, during pubertal development, the child itself in the annual rate of 6cm or more increase in height, but sometimes it is very likely to be ill-intentioned manufacturers to move the wood for their own so-called panacea of the efficacy of the drug. The use of medical knowledge to understand less, courageous subversive knowledge innovation, with some profound medical terminology and specious theories to the customer dizzy, everywhere flaunting the so-called high-tech, everywhere taking the so-called international first-class, how many domestic and foreign awards, the United States, the latest technology and so on rhetoric to bluff; there are also some manufacturers to the second-generation products as a shield, many manufacturers tend to solemnly Commitment, if not effective then free replacement of a new generation of products, with patents, approvals or ancestral recipes and so on to do the front, hanging sheep’s head to sell dog meat, the use of the current national regulations and policies in the imperfections in the national magazines and newspapers or other media advertisements to deceive consumers, confuse the boundaries of health care products and therapeutic drugs, bragging that the factory’s medicines are able to cure a hundred diseases and so on; a lot of the so-called relevant state authorities approval number of the product, and so on, and so forth. A lot of so-called products with the approval number of the relevant state authorities, in fact, only contains calcium, iron and other health care functions of ordinary health products, and in the Ministry of Health approved the 22 functions of health food, and does not increase the height of this one. Therefore, parents must beware of the emergency, when the pawn, in addition to economic losses, in some products even added sex hormones, etc., although the short term can make the child’s height has a certain increase, but the sex hormones can accelerate the healing of the epiphysis, thus affecting the child’s final height, it is too late to regret. In reality, why do children and parents will be deceived? What can be done to prevent it? We summarize the clinical data of children with shortness as the main complaint in our hospital endocrinology shortness clinic from July 2000 to October 2006, in which 670 children and parents answered our questionnaire, in which 10% of the parents let their children eat the so-called height-enhancing drugs (the specific ingredients are not known), but 95% of the parents admitted that there is no therapeutic effect, and there have been two cases of children taking height-enhancing drugs, at the age of 11 years old are There were two cases of children taking height-enhancing drugs, both of whom started pubertal development at the age of 11, and one of them started menstruation at the age of 11. Both of them ceased to increase in height at the age of 13, and their final heights were lower than the third percentile. In addition, 5% of the parents were urging their children to take “calcium tablets”, and these parents believed that calcium supplementation could promote growth. 2.5% of the children had received equipment to increase their height, mainly retractors or the so-called height-enhancing magic wands; 10.5% of the children had worn height-enhancing shoes, but 95% of the children or their parents admitted that there was no obvious effect, and 100% of the children and their parents recognized that there was no obvious effect, and 100% of the children and their parents admitted that there was no obvious effect. The effect, 100% of the children and parents admitted that the advertisement is exaggerated. 5% of the parents asked for their children, 2.5% of the children themselves asked for amputation augmentation surgery, but more than 95% of the children and their parents do not know anything about the indications of amputation augmentation surgery and the risk of the treatment. It is some unscrupulous businessmen in the society who take advantage of the “fear of shortness” and the lack of relevant scientific knowledge to set a series of commercial traps, especially the commercial traps implied in some height enhancement advertisements, so that many parents and children have been deceived. For this reason, in the future clinical practice, we should further improve the health education and publicity mechanism for patients, strengthen the exchange between doctors and patients, and improve the knowledge of children’s growth and development as much as possible, and at the same time, we hope that you will pay attention to these problems and strengthen the monitoring of children’s growth and development. In addition, since these children and parents of various height-enhancing products information sources are: 50% from television, 40% from newspapers and magazines, 5% from the Internet, 5% from other sources. Therefore, we call on the relevant authorities to strengthen legislation and improve the regulatory mechanism, especially to strengthen the supervision and management of the media and advertisements.