By Lisa Strauss

Special to The Washington Post

I can be staying in five-diamond accommodations on vacation, and I never get as good of a night’s sleep as if I were home. I know all the tricks of using hangers to make blackout curtains, get the extra pillows/blankets out, etc., but nothing seems to work.

A reader asked this question in a recent live chat on sleep issues, and I hear variations of it from my patients. Sleep trouble while traveling is a common problem. Challenges can occur for many reasons, but fortunately, there are solutions to help you sleep better when you are not in your own home.

These suggestions are not a substitute for individualized health care:

Anxiety about travel

Anxiety — about travel logistics, unfamiliar places and people, family members and pets back hom

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