How to detect a consumer's lost connection

If ActiveMQ is restarted, we find that our producers and our consumers have
to be shut down and relaunched in order to reestablish the connection with
ActiveMQ. This is a royal pain! However, a producer will throw an
exception whenever it tries to send a message through a lost connection, and
so I catch the exception where I can close the connection and reopen it.
Thus, my producers are able to reconnect automatically in the event ActiveMQ
is restarted.

But with a consumer, no exception is thrown as it waits for message
notifications. It simply waits eternally for a notification that never
happens once a connection with ActiveMQ is lost. So what is the recommended
approach for a consumer to check for a disconnection??
Mark