Myth 1: The current short size of children is related to their low height or weight at birth and does not require treatment. In fact, birth weight below 2500 grams, medically known as intrauterine growth retardation, smaller than gestational age children and premature babies, should reach the normal height and weight range for the same age at around 3 years old if they have failed to catch up with growth at 3 years old, these children have always had a gap of several centimeters with children of the same age, resulting in their height remaining short after adulthood. Therefore, children who fail to catch up with their growth can start applying growth hormone therapy after the age of 3. Myth 2: Short size may be a late growth, so you can wait and see. Late growth is medically known as delayed somatic puberty. Such children develop puberty 2-3 years later than normal children, and their growth rate is in the low limit of the normal range, and most elders in the family have late growth. If you suspect late growth, you need a pediatric endocrinologist to exclude other causes of dwarfism and do not miss the best treatment age because of waiting. Myth 3: Children with short parents cannot be taller. It is true that height is a polygenic inheritance, and the more parents and family members have short stature, the more likely the child will have short stature as an adult. However, there is also the influence of factors such as environment and nutrition; moreover, hereditary dwarfism is more likely to appear after the age of 3, and nutritional factors have a greater effect on height before the age of 3. Therefore, regular checkups should be conducted to correct the effects of factors such as nutritional deficiencies on height in a timely manner, so that the child’s height potential can be maximized. Myth 4: Sexual development as a whole has an early trend, the early development of children does not necessarily affect height. Some parents believe that children’s growth and development is much higher than children of the same age fat, and will not be short after adulthood. In fact, the basic height of children entering puberty plus the height of the pubertal height gain is the adult height, so sexual development a year earlier, height loss in about 5 cm, the earlier the sexual development, the earlier the epiphyseal closure, the greater the impact on the final height in adulthood. The earlier the sexual development, the earlier the epiphyseal closure, the greater the impact on the final height in adulthood. Boys with ejaculation or girls with menarche have a height growth of about 5 cm and have entered the slow growth period, so it is best to give intervention treatment in early adolescence to achieve a better treatment effect. Myth 5: Pay attention to finding the cause of dwarfism and take the treatment of dwarfism lightly. When a child is short, parents will go to the hospital for growth hormone stimulation test, thyroid function, bone age and other tests to find the cause of the shortness, and for children with normal growth hormone secretion, many parents think that the child does not need treatment because there is no problem. In fact, many of these children belong to idiopathic dwarf children, and growth hormone can be used to improve their short stature. Misconception 6: Pay attention to medication and think that review is unnecessary. Many parents are concerned about their children’s height and want to find out the cause of their children’s short stature so that they can treat them according to the cause, but some parents think that it is costly and time-consuming to have a review once every three months. However, experts believe that regular check-ups cannot be skipped, and are necessary for adjusting the type and dosage of medication, whether to add or switch to other medication, and avoiding side effects. For example, children with precocious puberty treated with traditional Chinese medicine were not reviewed at the interval of once every three months, and as a result, their height and sexual development were affected due to their advanced bone age. Myth #7: Short children can try the height-enhancing drugs and advertisements on the market. For example, some health care products have good short-term effects after use, but may cause early epiphyseal closure, which will make the child’s adult height even shorter, so the treatment of short stature must be diagnosed and treated at the growth and development clinic of children’s hospital.