diff --git a/pulsar/client/amqp_exchange.py b/pulsar/client/amqp_exchange.py
index 0de56ced..4b9399f7 100644
--- a/pulsar/client/amqp_exchange.py
+++ b/pulsar/client/amqp_exchange.py
@@ -14,10 +14,17 @@
 except ImportError:
     kombu = None
 
+try:
+    import amqp
+    import amqp.exceptions
+except ImportError:
+    amqp = None
+
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 KOMBU_UNAVAILABLE = "Attempting to bind to AMQP message queue, but kombu dependency unavailable"
+AMQP_UNAVAILABLE = "Attempting to bind to AMQP message queue, but pyampq dependency unavailable"
 
 DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_NAME = "pulsar"
 DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_TYPE = "direct"
@@ -47,7 +54,7 @@ class PulsarExchange:
 
     Each Pulsar manager is defined solely by name in the scheme, so only one Pulsar
     should target each AMQP endpoint or care should be taken that unique
-    manager names are used across Pulsar servers targetting same AMQP endpoint -
+    manager names are used across Pulsar servers targeting the same AMQP endpoint -
     and in particular only one such Pulsar should define an default manager with
     name _default_.
     """
@@ -68,6 +75,8 @@ def __init__(
         """
         if not kombu:
             raise Exception(KOMBU_UNAVAILABLE)
+        if not amqp:
+            raise Exception(AMQP_UNAVAILABLE)
         self.__url = url
         self.__manager_name = manager_name
         self.__amqp_key_prefix = amqp_key_prefix
@@ -84,7 +93,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.consume_uuid_store = consume_uuid_store
         self.publish_ack_lock = threading.Lock()
         # Ack manager should sleep before checking for
-        # repbulishes, but if that changes, need to drain the
+        # republishes, but if that changes, need to drain the
         # queue once before the ack manager starts doing its
         # thing
         self.ack_manager_thread = self.__start_ack_manager()
@@ -119,7 +128,7 @@ def consume(self, queue_name, callback, check=True, connection_kwargs={}):
                                 connection.drain_events(timeout=self.__timeout)
                             except socket.timeout:
                                 pass
-            except OSError as exc:
+            except (OSError, amqp.exceptions.ConnectionForced, amqp.exceptions.RecoverableChannelError, amqp.exceptions.RecoverableConnectionError) as exc:
                 self.__handle_io_error(exc, heartbeat_thread)
             except BaseException:
                 log.exception("Problem consuming queue, consumer quitting in problematic fashion!")