Two-year-old Nottinghamshire girl born with one eye fundraising for a new prosthetic

Video: Myah Hauxwell needs a new prosthetic eye.

A two-year-old girl from Mansfield born with one eye needs an operation to fit a prosthetic which will help prevent her from getting infections.

Myah Hauxwell, from Mansfield Woodhouse, was born with a rare genetic condition called micropthamia, known as small eye syndrome.

Her mum Lauren, 30, explained how her daughter’s right eye was not developed when she was born, meaning she only had a pupil.

Her eye has been operated on a number of times since to glue it together and expand the socket, so a prosthetic eye could be fitted to prevent her face from appearing misshapen.

But the eye she was given a month before her first birthday is now too small for the socket and regularly falls out, leaving Myah in pain and susceptible to infections.

Myah Hauxwell, two.

Lauren, who is a beautician, says Myah faced an eight-month wait for a new eye to be fitted on the NHS.

And she is fundraising to pay for the procedure to be done privately, which could be done in the coming weeks.

Lauren said: “She [Myah] keeps getting infections so we keep ending up in hospital with her with temperatures I can’t get down.

“Now the eye is too small and it’s causing us so many problems. It keeps falling out, it hurts her and turns around. The bar code’s on it. It causes us so many problems.”

Lauren has set up a fundraising page to raise £4,000 for the new eye – which doctors say will need to be replaced every two years. So far £1,377 has been raised.

Lauren says Myah will not get as many infections when her new eye is fitted.

She added: “It’d [the new eye] be massive. If she gets an infection in her eye [at the moment] it comes out of her eye socket because it doesn’t fit.

Myah Hauxwell with her mum Lauren.

“At the minute she tells me it hurts her all the time and her eye is poorly. It’s not really the way I want my two-year-old to be.”

Lauren says if the target is reached Myah will get two prosthetic eyes – and one will be a kept as a spare.

A fundraising event has been organised at The Star pub in Mansfield Woodhouse on August 12.

Single parent Lauren says there will be bouncy castles, a performance from a magician and an acoustic singer, and children will be able to get their face painted.

An auction will be held and prizes include a signed Frank Bruno boxing glove and tickets to see the former England striker Alan Shearer.

Lauren says she’s “absolutely ecstatic” that so much has been raised in just a week and people have been “incredibly supportive”.

She added: “I’ve got people doing charity boxing events and a charity football match. People are helping with the fundraiser. Everyone’s been so kind and lovely, it’s been amazing.”

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